I’m not comfortable with the idea of my sex appeal, but I…

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

— Yami Gautam

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

— Maggie Rogers

Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it…

— Kate O'Mara

If I can have a career based on playing roles that are a challenge and tell an important story, and for no alternative reason,…

— Camila Morrone

My whole career is based on how I can continue to challenge myself. That's why I've taken each of the jobs that I've had.

— Ariana DeBose

My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record…

— Bonnie Raitt

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

— Sharon Van Etten

“Effortlessly, the man sowed the idea of sex with his quips, the smiles, and something as innocent as their legs brushing against one another.”

— Melissa Blue

The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

— Eric Clapton

You have got to compete with them...you have to be working toward a future of your own. A picture of the future of your…

— Scott Lively

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

— Hope Solo

I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.

— Eve Ensler

“...the idea of sex is no idea at all. Imagine doing those things—How can you? Where's your sense of dignity?”

— Jeff Lindsay

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right…

— Tony Abbott