Sexuality Quotations | Page 3

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the confidence to love themselves wholeheartedly and to be their true, authentic self without any shame.

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.