#sexuality

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. ↗

— K. D. Lang

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I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#before #came #deeply #experience #i

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? ↗

— Audre Lorde

#although #define #energizing #enjoy #i

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy. ↗

— Greg Louganis

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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ↗

— Francis Maude

#bit #disapprove #disapproving #homosexuality #like

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic. ↗

— James McGreevey

#better #card #catalogues #child #difference

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation. ↗

— James McGreevey

#damnation #faith #forthcoming #homosexuality #mortal

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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