“ To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
- 4K
“ Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. ”
- Michael Stipe- Copy
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“ Sexuality is overtly talked about now but wasn't really in those days. ”
- Robert Osborne- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Today there are gays and lesbians in church groups outside of my own denomination, but there are tens of thousands who want to be a part of the Universal Fellow ship of Metropolitan Community Churches. We continue to expand and grow and carry the good news that Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality. ”
- Troy Perry- Copy
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“ The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body. ”
- Roger Scruton- Copy
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“ The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden — as an unpatriotic act — that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness — pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained. ”
- George Gilder- Copy
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“ In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ I have never relied on my sexuality and I don't really have an image at all. If you look at film footage of me 20 years ago, I don't look much different to the way I do now. I used to say that I would never wear anything on stage that I couldn't wear out to dinner with my grandmother… ”
- Natalie Merchant- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house. ”
- River Phoenix- Copy
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“ Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood. ”
- Victoria Billings- Copy
- 2.6K
“ If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: Hello. Can't work today, still queer. ”
- Robin Tyler- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo — or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ”
- Charles Pierce- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay. ”
- Kathleen Turner- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity. ”
- Barbara Gordon- Copy
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“ All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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