Heterosexuality Quotes · Page 2

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever…

— Hanne Blank

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would…

— Michel Foucault

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a…

— Marilyn vos Savant

“The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste…

— Adrienne Rich

“But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much…

— Zadie Smith

I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through…

— Bryan Fischer

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem…

— Edward Gorey

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality…

— Barbara Gittings

“Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic…

— Adrienne Rich

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with…

— Jeanette Winterson

Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone.…

— Thomas Szasz

When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of…

— Judith Butler

Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom…

— Alex Sanchez

My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for…

— Bill O'Reilly

“Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously…

— Nivedita Menon

“I'm as liberal as the next person', complained Alsana, once they were alone. 'But why do they always have to be laughing…

— Zadie Smith

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the…

— Audre Lorde

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and…

— Cheryl Clarke

I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.

— Marilyn Frye

“I would rather be a womaniser than a sodomiser.”

— Habeeb Akande

Heterosexuality is not a thing.

— Lauren Berlant

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

— Audre Lorde

The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

— Alfred Kinsey

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

— Sigmund Freud

“He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it”

— Vito Russo

“If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

— Wendy Kaminer

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in…

— Ed Case

It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.

— Vito Russo

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,…

— Adrienne Rich

I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and…

— Nell Zink

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— Bruce Jackson

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them…

— Jacqueline Woodson

You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses…

— Ellen Page

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because…

— Anonymous

It is propaganda that people, who had lived a full life of heterosexuality, were married and had children, were denying their real…

— Ali Sina

I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual…

— Michelene Wandor

People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is…

— Todd Haynes