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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
Author:
George Weinberg
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A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
Author:
Neil Tennant
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We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
Author:
Neil Tennant
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I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
Author:
Donna Summer
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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.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.
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Dusty Springfield
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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
Author:
Margaret Spellings
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Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.
Author:
Amanda Seyfried
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It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
Author:
Josh Schwartz
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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
Author:
Portia Rossi
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I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
Author:
Portia Rossi
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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J. Roberts
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Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
Author:
Diego Rivera
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Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women - especially Christian women - need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography.
Author:
Donna Rice
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French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.
Author:
Charlotte Rampling
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I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.
Author:
Danny Pintauro
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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.
Author:
River Phoenix
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Author:
Martina Navratilova
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I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
Author:
George Michael
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I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
Author:
George Michael
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I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.
Author:
Shirley Manson
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Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
Author:
Adrian Lyne
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People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.
Author:
Greg Louganis
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
Author:
Lance Loud
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I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
Author:
Audre Lorde
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I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
Author:
Eva Longoria
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One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
Author:
Stephen Lewis
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Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
Author:
Ang Lee
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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.
Author:
Heather Kozar
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I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
Author:
Jerzy Kosinski
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I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
Author:
Billie King
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And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
Author:
Thomas Keneally
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They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
Author:
Philip Kaufman
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Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
Author:
Leon Kass
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All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
Author:
Angelina Jolie
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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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.
Author:
Derek Jarman
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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
Author:
Derek Jarman
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You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
Author:
Amy Irving
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You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.
Author:
Brett Hull
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A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
Author:
William Henry III
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Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
Author:
Christie Hefner
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I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.
Author:
Anne Heche
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And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.
Author:
Anne Heche
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I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.
Author:
Goldie Hawn
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Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.
Author:
Jasmine Guy
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There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
Author:
Jasmine Guy
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I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Author:
Al Goldstein
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A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
Author:
Boy George
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.
Author:
Cathy Freeman
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Author:
Michel Foucault
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Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
Author:
Carmen Electra
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
Author:
Olympia Dukakis
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There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.
Author:
Kyan Douglas
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I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.
Author:
Catherine Deneuve
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The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.
Author:
Marton Csokas
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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
Author:
Bill Condon
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There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
Author:
Ana Castillo
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Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
Author:
Ana Castillo
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Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
Author:
Judith Butler
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Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.
Author:
Louise Brown
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I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
Author:
Jacqueline Bisset
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I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.
Author:
Rachel Bilson
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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
Author:
John Bernal
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At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
Author:
Jean Baudrillard
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
Author:
Rosanna Arquette
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For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.
Author:
Fiona Apple
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
Author:
Fiona Apple
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
Author:
Francesca Annis
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
Author:
Dorothy Allison
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Author:
Mortimer Adler
