Artificial Quote by Marilyn Frye

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

Heterosexuality as we know it is so plain boring, dumb, dull and artificial, it has to be imposed upon people, otherwise they don't take…

— Virginie Despentes

I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express…

— Madonna Ciccone

Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male.…

— Marilyn Frye

I don't think it's accepted naturally to be bisexual, especially as a woman.

— Erica Mena

I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and…

— Eve Ensler

As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community — as well…

— Cynthia Nixon

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early…

— Teresa de Lauretis

“The main problem for women trying to emulate male sexuality is that as a ruling-class sexuality, it is constructed around the fact that they…

— Sheila Jeffreys

A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common…

— Bell Hooks

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that…

— Jerry Falwell

I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.

— Jennifer Lawrence