Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality."
Sexuality quotes
Sexuality
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Josh Schwartz
Television Producer, Writer
"It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted."
Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst
"Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are."
Leonard A Cole
Physicist
"You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense."
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"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
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"I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate."
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"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers."
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"When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism."
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"[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live."
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"I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous."
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"My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me."
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"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time."
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"A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young."
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"Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror."
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"The unnatural, that too is natural."
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"Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives."
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"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
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"It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved."
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"In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites."
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"And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty."
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"I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time."
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"I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural."
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"For me, I don't do nip or bush. I won't do it. And that's because I talk to numerous young women in high school and I talk to them about owning who they are, and not giving up their sexuality because they have to."
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"Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice."
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