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Sexuality Quotes by Susan Sontag

9 Sexuality quotes by Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag contributes nine concise observations that examine sexuality through the lenses of art, politics, and identity. While the set is small, each line carries her characteristic intellectual rigor, inviting readers to reconsider familiar assumptions.

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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

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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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There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

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One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most…

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On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not…

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In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful…

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In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical…

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Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to…

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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the…

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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

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With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…

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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…

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The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but…

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Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

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I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo-Conservatives.

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The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some…

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