Caste system Quote by Adrienne Rich

“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.”

— Christopher Bram

“Without (hetero)sexual abuse, (hetero)sexual harassment and the (hetero)sexualization of every aspect of female bodies and behaviors, there would not be patriarchy, and whatever other…

— Robert Jensen

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

— Adrienne Rich

“The whole of our scholarship - the whole of our thought - we question everything except the centrality of sexuality.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“It should first be understood that lesbianism, like male homosexuality, is a category of behavior possible only in a sexist society characterized by rigid…

— Radicalesbians

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

— Vito Russo

“Perhaps the most radical aspect of queer politics was its claim not only to transcend the homo/hetero boundary but to do so in such…

— Richard Dunphy

“In this way, heterosexual White men freed themselves, through racist laws, to engage in sexual relations with all women.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Heterosexual people, conforming to conventional dictate, are pillars of the society with which they are identified. Bisexuals and homosexuals, on the other hand, make…

— Charlotte Wolff, M.D

“I once read an old statue in law school that had two notable exceptions to criminal homosexuality: same-sex relations in prison and in the…

— M.E. Thomas