Sexuality Quotes - Page 9

• I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

  Lorna Simpson

  Focus, Details, Body

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• I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

  Dolly Parton

  Tools, Weapons, Natural

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• I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

  Natalie Merchant

  Thinking, People, Individual

  "Paradise Is Here: An Interview With Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I think that women have a construction of their sexuality put on them from a very young age that says exclusivity is necessary to remain valuable, that if a dude screws somebody else it means that he doesn't love you, that he doesn't care about you. You don't have primacy in his life.

  Guy Branum

  Love You, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A nice thing about being 40 is that you're not a kid about your understanding of sex or sexuality anymore.

  Guy Branum

  Sex, Nice, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

  Elena Ferrante

  Thinking, Males, Obstacles

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.304, Penguin

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• Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

  Amy Ray

  Thinking, Gender, Cool Things

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• I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of Mann's and Aschenbach's sexuality), I use philosophical sources (but not in the way many Mann critics do, where the philosophical theses and concepts seem to be counters to be pushed around rather than ideas to be probed), and I use juxtapositions with other literary works (including Mann's other fiction) and with works of music.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophical, Ideas, Appreciate

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann had lived through a series of (almost certainly unconsummated) relationships with young men.

  Philip Kitcher

  Attitude, Men, Figures

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the wandering around Venice in pursuit of Tadzio isn't a prelude to some sexual contact for which Aschenbach is yearning.

  Philip Kitcher

  Venice, Wandering Around, Form

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.

  Jeff Koons

  Philosophy, Versailles, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.

  Christopher Rice

  Sex, Gay, Trying

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• The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.

  Amber Heard

  Perspective, Feminist, Movement

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice.

  Deborah Smith

  Sex, Narrative Voice, Males

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

  Michael Gira

  Children, Friction, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sexy, Cutting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Understanding, Desire, Body

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rocks

  "Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams and Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. July 26, 2006.

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• I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

  Joan Jett

  Mean, Zippers, Waiting

  "Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams and Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. July 26, 2006.

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• With fame, all of a sudden you're seeing yourself through the eyes of a world of men, and that's . . . Look, it's very weird to have part and parcel of a job to feel like you're a lure for men to come into the theater. Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.

  Rose McGowan

  Jobs, Eye, Men

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Gay, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Home, Self

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• I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.

  Esther Perel

  Games, People, Choices

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• I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

  David Guetta

  People, Together, Way

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.

  Rose McGowan

  Light, People, May

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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