It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in the film, "you get to say breast out loud in public. " Big corporations know this and market in a particular way knowing that women make most of the buying decisions in a household.
Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
I was judgmental of artists who were exploring their sexuality, and I thought, Why are they doing that? They don't have to. They've got a good voice.
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking. . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.
Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.
I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary. "
If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.
Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
All women are lesbians except those who don't know it.