Sexual Agency Quotes

#1. There is a need for promoting women's sexual agency in today's society, because if it wasn't an issue, terms such as 'female sexual empowerment' would be made redundant. The fact that we merely have this vocabulary is indicative of that.

Miya Yamanouchi

#2. Sexual agency is about being able to define your sexuality by the decisions you yourself make, and NOT by the perceptions, expectations or opinions of others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#3. I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

Peggy Orenstein

#4. Whether electing abstinence from sex or choosing to engage in sex with multiple lovers, sexual empowerment is about making decisions which are right and safe and true for you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#5. The one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

Angelina Jolie

#6. Irrespective of whether you are sexually active of not, being sexually empowered is a vital element of being able to create a society with zero tolerance for sexual violence.

Miya Yamanouchi

#7. Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

Michael Douglas

#8. You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

Peter Kropotkin

#9. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.

Miya Yamanouchi

#10. Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire.

Bell Hooks

#11. For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

Marie-Luise Gothein

#12. Girls and guys, don't let anyone tell you who and what you should be into.

Miya Yamanouchi

#13. You and I are walking in the snow. "Why are you walking backwards?" I ask. You point in the direction we came from. "So they'll think that's where I'm going." You point to where we're going. "And that's where I'm from.

David Levithan

#14. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

Michael Kenny

#15. Fear and logic belong together.

Dee Williams