1. "I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia,
if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those
who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate
from homosexuality."
(Judith Butler)
2. "Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge."
(Alice Walker)
3. "Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses."
(Charles Baudelaire)
5. "Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction."
8. “Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”
(Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality)
9. “What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”
( John Steinbeck, East of Eden)
10. “Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them.”
(Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)