#orientation

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#attracted #confused #feel #gender #how

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#any #assimilation #believe #big #deal

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. ↗

— Jane Campion

#come #i #i think #modern #orientation

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#based #children #deny #denying #gender

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#behavior #capitalist #career #choice #dress

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#orientation #presupposes

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#change #disorientation #change

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations. ↗

— Virginia Johnson

#orientations #our #preferences #sexual

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asia #country #drove #into #invader