Quotes About Sexuality

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on.

I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

I feel like people make such a big deal out of sexuality. It's so weird to me, because at the end of the day, it's just about soul connection. It's just about who you connect with.

I'm very conditioned by my surroundings, by the influences of social media, by the television I watch. And I always found, growing up, that even inspiring female characters or complex female characters in television and film, I often found that their complexity was actually just another facet of their sexuality.

Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn't granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have.

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

I'm quite cool about my sex symbol image. It's nothing to be proud of or ashamed of.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

Everywhere in TV and films, actors who become mothers are treated differently. Suddenly, people will be like, 'Oh, she's a mom, so she can't play a sex symbol role.'

It annoys me that we glorify sex symbols one day and make them apologise the next.

Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.

I'm going to tell you something: it's a job to be glamorous. I mean, if you think it comes easy, it doesn't. Marilyn went through it; all the sex symbols go through it.