Sexualization Quotes

#1. Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

Catharine MacKinnon

#2. Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

Peggy Orenstein

#3. Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

Peggy Orenstein

#4. Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Andrea Dworkin

#5. The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

Jennifer James

#7. Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

James J. Wilhelm

#8. Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

Neal Stephenson

#9. My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.

John Holdren

#10. I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Seamus Heaney

#11. A tiny part of me wanted to kick him, too, not because he was homeless, but because he was a judgmental asshole.

Julia Karr

#12. It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.

Violet Rose

#13. From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#14. Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

Vladimir Lenin

#15. I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attain.

Jamie Le Fay

#16. The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

Susan Powter

#17. I didn't want to be someone pretending to be a woman; I wanted to know what it was like to be a sexual woman... I wanted to be alluring, passionate, and mysterious, someone men found irresistible...

Jessica Angelina Birch

#18. My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts ... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people.

Dick Gephardt