"The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising……" — Sheila Jeffreys
"The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire."
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18 Quotes by Sheila Jeffreys
Sheila Jeffreys has 18 quotes on this site.
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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a…
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The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the…
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Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies…
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Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices…
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender…
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Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no…
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It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be…
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Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male…
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As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due…
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Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes…
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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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