Woman Sexuality Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Marisa Tomei

#3. Numbered are the days
of hunger stricken strays
a woman's curving taste
a paper police state.

Virginia Petrucci

#4. 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

#5. No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Betty Friedan

#6. For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#7. A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.

Nenia Campbell

#8. The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.

Samael Aun Weor

#9. Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

Camille Paglia

#10. 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

#11. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.

Julieanne O'Connor

#12. 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

#13. Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.

Edward Carpenter

#14. He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#15. I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists

Simon Tam

#16. Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Whitney Otto

#17. My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.

Jane Badler

#18. Sexual thoughts float through a man's brain many times a day, while on the contrary a woman has them only one to four times a day.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. A man who is not as evolved as the woman he is with will hold her back, drain her spirit, and prevent the film of her life playing out to its intended conclusion.

John Maxwell Taylor

#20. My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

Suzanne Vega

#21. Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.

Peter Brooks

#22. She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

Zadie Smith

#23. In her view, there were three
options for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If you
were ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, or
ugly and dishonorable, you became a whore.

Nenia Campbell

#24. A man can reach the heights of the Super-Man by entering the field of supra-sexuality, by knowing how to enjoy love, by knowing how to enjoy a woman, by knowing how to live with joy or with more emotion and less useless reasoning.

Samael Aun Weor

#25. I was always, as a younger actress, very conscious of not wanting to act sexy. I didn't see myself like that. But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it.

Reese Witherspoon

#26. I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves.

Crystal Evans

#27. All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.

Emile Zola

#28. A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.

Thomas Moore

#29. Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.
'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.
'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully.
'Huh?' said Lester.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#30. A woman's sexuality is not at all like a man's. A man can literally f**k a watermelon and come. If you put enough friction on his c**k, in some semblance of a rhythm, he will orgasm. It's a no brainer.

Chloe Cole

#31. Desire begins in a woman's mind.

Nikki Sex

#32. Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Diego Rivera

#33. If a man or a woman starts "expecting" sex, then it is no longer special, and a lover will likely start to feel used.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#34. It's not easy for a young gay fabulous boy in Japan, I should know, that's why I became a woman. Momma Nakama

Rochelle H. Ragnarok

#35. Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.

John Maxwell Taylor

#36. The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience.

Alan W. Watts

#37. When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. Some guys assume that they made this one girl orgasm by doing this one thing and now they do it to every woman they get with. If it doesn't work on you, then something about you must be broken.

Roberto Hogue

#39. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf

#40. I hate society's notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.

Alessandra Torre

#41. The sexier the other woman is, the more jealous your wife gets. And that's where slut shaming comes from. When a woman is too sexually attractive, when she's too good at attracting the attention of the opposite sex, other women will shame her for it, because they are afraid she will steal their men.

Oliver Markus

#42. Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Leon Kass

#43. The woman who is liberated must never cross the line in which we ask men to examine their actions; we are a country built on the ideas, ingenuity, canniness, and downright brutality of man - to question their motives is to question our existence.

Kristen Kehoe

#44. Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

Halle Berry

#45. Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

Mary MacLane

#46. Saint Thomas declared that woman was an "inessential" being, which, from a masculine point of view, is a way of positing the accidental character of sexuality.

Simone De Beauvoir

#47. Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?

Christina Aguilera

#48. A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

Anne Sexton

#49. Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.

Pipilotti Rist

#50. Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.

Frederick Lenz

#51. To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

Russell Brand

#52. Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her heart beat my own. So I tugged on her sheets, like it was a cape. To me, she was a God damned super hero, and underneath, was everything I need. Her super powers on top of me.

J. Raymond

#53. I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.

Erica Jong

#54. Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warm. That's the great generosity of women and the great generosity of the creator who worked it out that way, that there are no unilateral agreements of sexuality.

Leonard Cohen

#55. Rather than being liberated by er sexuality, a woman's reliance on sexual attractiveness was just one more way in which she allowed herself to be stereotyped and thus used by men

Jeffrey L. Geller

#56. In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.

Alleen Pace Nilsen

#57. The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

Andrea Dworkin

#58. Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women.

Anand Neelakantan

#59. As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s ... You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be.

Salma Hayek

#60. It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

Mary Roach

#61. Fate forced me to become a two-man woman. But there was no effing way I could be a four-man woman.
Even metaphysics couldn't keep that from being whorey.

Sierra Dean

#62. Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.

Frederick Lenz

#63. People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

Maria Bello

#64. The notion that a woman's sexuality belongs only to the husband is a central tenet tied to the idea that a woman is the property of the father first, then the property of the husband.

Darrel Ray

#65. A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Karl Kraus

#66. By the age of thirteen, any blossoming girl knows the power she possesses over boys. By the time she's thirty she's come to realize men would stoop to fucking chickens under the right circumstances.

Jack Dancer

#67. I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.

Paddy Chayefsky

#68. In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange.

Cynthia Nixon

#69. As a woman lives them, she will understand more and more of these interior feminine rhythms, among them the rhythms of creativity, or birthing psychic babies and perhaps also human ones, the rhythms of solitude, of play, of rest, of sexuality, and of the hunt.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#70. A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her - himself and her own longing - greater than a mere man

Judith Ivory

#71. The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#72. Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.

Camille Paglia

#73. If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn't curse you until morning.

Michael Muhammad Knight

#74. I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#75. The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

Nicole Brossard

#76. Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think woman acted only after 1969.

Mick LaSalle

#77. There is nothing mixed up about a woman who loves women, who wants to have sex with them, or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that is mixed up because it punishes people for not conforming to its gender stereotypes.

Edward Stein

#78. And here's why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased.

Taylor Jenkins Reid