Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma…

— Peter Brooks

“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women more than…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— A.S. Byatt

“...There are as many sexes as there are individuals...the seeming neat correspondence between male and female organs is not the end, but the beginning,…

— Parker Tyler

“Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality”

— Sinéad O'Connor

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

— Andrea Dworkin

“I have discovered that we do not hold our sexuality but our sexuality holds us.”

— Rakesh Satyal

“This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s really going…

— David Foster Wallace

“...there was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers…

— Henry James

Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot”

— Gore Vidal