Top 100 Quotes About Sexuality
#1. The simple right to reproductive freedom - to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction - is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.
Gloria Steinem
#2. I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".
Roger Ross Williams
#3. Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.
Pope Francis
#4. Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Alice Walker
#5. I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
Jarvis Cocker
#6. Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.
Susan McClary
#7. Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.
Tammara Webber
#8. The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman's true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.
Janice Raymond
#9. The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.
Thomm Quackenbush
#10. Of course we know that sexual promiscuity increases the likelihood of STIs, which is why we explore sexuality through romance - it's safer (and you don't have to shave your legs).
Maya Rodale
#11. Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
Camille Paglia
#12. I'm never going to be cast as a 'Bond' girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don't ooze sexuality.
Dree Hemingway
#13. There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.
Rufus Wainwright
#14. Her arousal shocked her. It went against everything she believed in to act like a man's slave and yet this was different. Just like her sexuality was his creation, this erection was hers. She owned it, she'd given it life.
Elliot Mabeuse
#15. What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?
Jeannine Parvati Baker
#16. People are uncomfortable with sexuality that's not for male consumption.
Erykah Badu
#17. Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
Tunde Adebimpe
#18. I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.
Seth Numrich
#19. I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
Adam Lambert
#20. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.
Reese Witherspoon
#21. I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.
Rachel Bilson
#22. The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.
Germaine Greer
#23. Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.
Rajneesh
#24. Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.
Ali Sina
#25. Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
Alexander Lowen
#26. Her sexuality wasn't coy or cute. She wasn't saucy; she was feral. Her very presence on the earth stirred me.
C.D. Reiss
#27. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#28. Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.
Camille Paglia
#29. I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
George Michael
#30. ...no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as vulnerable to the absolutizing of another.
-Sexuality and Spiritual Growth
Joan H. Timmerman
#31. I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a conversation about power and sexuality and brutality. And really all the issues that are in that world, in that space, come down to one word, which is masculinity.
Oren Moverman
#32. It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.
Ruth Wilson
#33. It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.
Christina Westover
#34. The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.
Emilio Pucci
#35. We're queer, but music doesn't have a sexuality. Even if it was more clearly written to women, I still think that music is still just music.
Sara Quin
#36. Sexuality and love can be different things. I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with a woman. If I'm going to be with a woman sexually, it doesn't mean I'm a lesbian. We put these restraints and definitions on people, but it's hard to define.
Cameron Diaz
#37. Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.
Christopher John Farley
#38. Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
Camille Paglia
#39. Religion tries to give us maps of sexuality that are no better than a 2,000-year-old map of my hometown.
Darrel Ray
#40. What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
John Steinbeck
#41. As long as men completely dominate business and political life, as long as women are economically dependent on men, as long as the burden of child care falls wholly on women's shoulders (toppling even the most egalitarian couples), you cannot speak of a liberated female sexuality.
Esther Perel
#42. I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.
Marilyn Manson
#44. I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.
Ezra Miller
#45. Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.
Frederick Lenz
#46. On the first day of Human Sexuality, Ruth Ramsey wore a short lime green skirt, a clingy black top, and strappy high-heeled sandals, the kind of attention-getting outfit she normally wouldn't have worn on a date
not that she was going on a lot of dates these days
let alone to work.
Tom Perrotta
#47. People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#48. On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
Warren Farrell
#49. 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.
Mortimer Adler
#50. I didn't, couldn't, begrudge any woman who wanted Brad. I wanted him for everything - his strength, his weakness, his sexuality, his humor, his ego, his temper, and his security.
Alessandra Torre
#51. Despite living in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom in America, the practice of policing sexuality has continued unabated since the days of the Puritans.
Esther Perel
#52. The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about.
Ashley Judd
#53. For Emma, her sexuality is something that draws her to others, a social and political thing. For me, it's the most intimate thing there is
Julie Maroh
#54. You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.
Ronald Rolheiser
#55. 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
#56. There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.
Sinead O'Connor
#57. We don't know if he ever left England. We don't know who his principal companions were or how he amused himself. His sexuality is an irreconcilable mystery. On only a handful of days in his life can we say with absolute certainty where he was.
Bill Bryson
#58. Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#59. Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.
Dan Chaon
#60. Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#61. She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes.
Travis Luedke
#62. There are three ways in which we are honest. And those three ways will make up the bulk of this book. The three ways are 1) living based on our values (lifestyle); 2) becoming comfortable with our intentions (boldness); and 3) by expressing our sexuality freely (communication).
Mark Manson
#63. Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.
Sheryl Swoopes
#64. We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.
Vijay Seshadri
#65. A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.
Roger Rosenblatt
#66. 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.
Anne Heche
#67. Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."
P. J. O'Rourke
#68. I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you.
Brody Jenner
#69. It's impossible to generalize about sexuality - even one's own. The only way to keep it pure is to keep it unspoken. Keep it out of words. Words are not where sexuality lives. Without privacy, there is no ecstasy.
Erica Jong
#70. Do you want every human everywhere - regardless of gender, race, class, sexuality, or fandom - to have the same rights? Then congrats: you are a feminist. Huzzah!
Sam Maggs
#71. To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right,
Andrej Pejic
#72. Genetics and epigenetics are far more important in sexuality than any idea of choice. No evidence has been found that anyone chooses their sexuality. Choice is a theological concept, not a biological one.
Darrel Ray
#73. Control people's sexuality and you control them. After all, if people allow you to dictate how they behave in the privacy of their own bedrooms, there is very little that they will not allow you to control.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#74. There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.
Peter Tatchell
#75. Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre.
Rajneesh
#76. 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.
J.M. Roberts
#77. Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality
Sinead O'Connor
#78. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.
Rachel Held Evans
#79. Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.
Jean Kilbourne
#80. Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
Volkmar Sigusch
#81. I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.
Josh Radnor
#82. I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.
Frederick Lenz
#83. As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control of its evolution; when that happened sexuality would be seen for what it really was: a useless, dangerous, and regressive function.
Michel Houellebecq
#84. Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What's the line? I don't have a line.
Lady Gaga
#85. 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.
Jon Meacham
#86. Living a religious sexual lifestyle is tantamount to living a lie.
Religion distorts our sexuality when the majority of religious people live one life for the public and another in private. It can be as simple as living as a "happily married" couple when you are both miserable with your sex life.
Darrel Ray
#87. I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."
Kiese Laymon
#88. You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.
Christine O'Donnell
#89. The word slut is the highest compliment I can give. It means you are a person who owns her sexuality and is unafraid to experiment and open her mind and body to new experiences.
Tiffany Reisz
#90. Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
Dorothy Allison
#91. They are very different. Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality, are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of.
Amber Heard
#92. I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.
Marilyn Manson
#93. 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.
Warren Farrell
#94. Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.
Amy Ray
#96. The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
Arthur Miller
#97. Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.
Ariana Grande
#98. I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.
Erica Jong
#99. Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
Gordon Brown
#100. Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
