Quotes tagged ‘sexuality’

“Sex; sexuality: these too were things he should have sorted out in college, the last place where such insecurity was not just tolerated but encouraged.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“I wanna tell you something, but I don’t really wanna talk about it because I’m not sure how I feel about it, and I don’t wanna be told how to feel.”

— Sheila Callaghan, Debbie Gallagher, Emma Kenney, imdb.com

“I mean, we all have things that trigger our arousal, and if we just acknowledge them as normal and not deny them, then we could just move the fuck on with our lives!”

— Tom Kapinos, Adam Bernstein, Michael Lehmann, David Von Ancken, Ed Carr, Todd Grace, Shannon Mitchell, Mike Tenerelli, Marcy Runkle, Pamela Adlon, imdb.com

“Do you know how to please yourself? Do you know what you like, what you don’t like, what arouses you or what turns you off? You may want to spend some ‘alone time’ with yourself so that you can feel comfortable with your own sexuality. Having sex for the first time can be an intense experience leavi…”

— Brooke Dean, madamenoire.com

“The CDC estimates that one in two gay black men will acquire HIV in our lifetime. These rates continue to increase even as the general public believes HIV is over. To be clear, the problem here isn’t high-risk behavior. Black gay men aren’t engaging in any riskier behavior than our white counterpart…”

— Terrance Moore, advocate.com

“If you can't come out on coming out day, do not feel badly. I think it makes things better (in the long run) but it's tough!”

— Gaby Dunn, twitter.com

“I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com

“I want to be able to have freedom to explore my sexuality and the world and I am way too young to think about having to give that up for someone who doesn't want to agree with my choices.”

— Jenny Kutner, mic.com

“Some women don’t need a deep spiritual connection in order to enjoy carnal pursuits and some men do; the old stereotypes aren’t useful in navigating your own needs, and breaking anachronistic expectations through experience could lead you to a better understanding of your own sexuality.”

— Monica Shores, alternet.org

“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've got symbols of!”

— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com

“We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.”

— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com

“Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.”

— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com

“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, amazon.com

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.’”

— Marilyn Monroe, goodreads.com

“Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.”

— Hannah Hart, amazon.com

“To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.”

— Fiona Thrust, amazon.com

“When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, amazon.com

“Sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?”

— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com