Top 1200 Female Sexuality Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

The shows which have strong female characters are long overdue. I think there should be more and I am glad to see that there are more. There are fantastic female and diverse actors all around the world. I am glad to see that they are getting more recognition and being pushed into light more and more.

Sexuality isn't something you create. It is between people, and then it just happens.

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Personally, I would never use sexuality or looks as a selling point.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

I dream of a world where we don't have to talk about unnecessary things like sexuality, who you love.

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.

I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix it. I’m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.

Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'

Sexuality has become much more fluid, and you no longer have to be locked up into a convenient compartment.

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

I didn't want it to feel like I was shoving my sexuality down people's throats.

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

Sexuality is a very private thing, 'Provocateur' will make it public

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it’s tearing us apart.

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

Female directors really do need to support each other. Too many times I've been led to believe that my direct competition was other women, as if there can be only a handful of successful female filmmakers a year. That conversation, that perception, needs to change. Women are the people who have helped me make films I love, and I want to be that kind of strength to other women.

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.

I would like to see the breakdown of the binary way of looking at gender and sexuality.

When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.

It is difficult for people across the world to be comfortable with their sexuality. We need more education and awareness.

I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy... thing. And I'm very drawn to female energy, but I don't really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.

If I can inspire someone or help somebody to deal with their issues and their sexuality, then I'm here for it.

I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.

I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.

It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.