Sexuality Quotes

'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.

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.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

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.

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.

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

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.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

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.

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

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.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

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.

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

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.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

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.