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Quotes About Sexuality

When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice, all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.
~ Gillian Flynn
He is the kind of guy who carries himself like he gets laid alot
~ Gillian Flynn
Men love to put things in women, don't they?
~ Gillian Flynn
The smart boys fuck like they're composing a piece of math rock: This hand strums around here, and then this finger offers a nice bass rhythm... I sound quite slutty, don't I?
~ Gillian Flynn
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
~ Gloria Steinem
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
~ Gore Vidal
T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance.
~ Gore Vidal
Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot
~ Gore Vidal
Tutti sono bisessuali, disse l'uomo dai capelli grigi. La società, il condizionamento precoce, la buona o la cattiva sorte - dipende da come ci è stato detto di considerarla - determinano il risultato. Nulla è 'giusto'. Solo la negazione dell'istinto è sbagliata.
~ Gore Vidal
Most young men, particularly attractive ones, have sexual relations with their own kind. I suppose this is news to those who believe in the two teams: straight, which is good and unalterable; queer, which is bad and unalterable unless it proves to be only a Preference, which must then, somehow, be reversed, if necessary by force.
~ Gore Vidal
The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories—gay and straight.
~ Gore Vidal
I realized then that I didn't have to have women all the time, and that guilt is the weapon used by a muddled society to stop people having a good time. 'All the world loves a lover.' What crap! Even in the sexually liberated 'seventies young people still had to get pissed or high to do what they really wanted to do in the first place.
~ Graham Chapman
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.
~ Graham Greene
We are all different sexes, though with only two brands of equipment. —The Kiss of X, Alive Contains a Lie 2 Stone Hammer Alice Grale believes this is cataspace, all interaction but no motion.
~ Greg Bear
M/F, F/M, M/M, F/F / is what happens between us / is what separates us. We are all different sexes, though with only two brands of equipment. —The Kiss of X, Alive Contains a Lie
~ Greg Bear
The truth is that the Catholic Church celebrates and esteems sex more than any other faith. By exploring what authentic Catholic tradition holds about human sexuality, any husband and wife can experience sex as God intended it to be experienced — an eye-popping, toe-curling, life-giving, profoundly sacred, and deeply spiritual union of one divinized human person with another.
~ Gregory K. Popcak
The important thing to remember is you cannot give what you don't have. If you want to be an effective relationship model for your kids, you definitely don't have to have a perfect marriage (phew, right?) but you do have to show your kids that you take your relationship seriously and work hard at it. Regardless, if you want to achieve a true Catholic sexuality, then the only answer is to love. Love
~ Gregory K. Popcak
My grandparents were wealthy; my mom was not. I would walk into these worlds of privilege and then walk back into this other world. My little brother is biracial. So race and economic class and sexuality - these were always issues that were a part of my life.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
When illiberal feminists aren't delegitimizing female dissenters from their worldview as fake women, they are portraying them in such a hyper-sexualized way that they are reduced to nonhuman objects.
~ Kirsten Powers
When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
~ Vikram Seth
If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.
~ Richard Quest
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
~ Dan Savage
I know when there's lots of stuff racing around in my head it can be hard to sleep and stay asleep. And one of the biggest things that used to keep me awake at night was worrying about my gender and sexuality.
~ Courtney Act
All acts of terrorism - all killings of the innocent - are an abomination, and one that is made all the worse when the victims are chosen for their skin color, ethnicity, sexuality or religious beliefs.
~ Max Boot