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A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' ... What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one ... ~ Monique Wittig
Heterosexuality quotes by Monique Wittig
It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance. ~ Vito Russo
Heterosexuality quotes by Vito Russo
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it's a gay film ... I think that's really simplistic. Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it is a content. It is an imposed structure that goes along with the patriarchal, dominant structure that constrains and defines society. If homosexuality is the opposite or counter-sexual activity to that, then what kind of a structure would it be? ~ Todd Haynes
Heterosexuality quotes by Todd Haynes
Am saying that lesbianism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality are valid expressions of man's bisexual nature.
I am also stressing the fact that love and sexuality are not necessarily the same thing. Sex is love's expression, but it is only one of love's expressions. ~ Seth
Heterosexuality quotes by Seth
The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. ~ Adrienne Rich
Heterosexuality quotes by Adrienne Rich
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. ~ Zadie Smith
Heterosexuality quotes by Zadie Smith
The dogged effort to "denaturalize" gender in this text emerges, I think, from a strong desire both to counter the normative violence implied by ideal morphologies of sex and to uproot the pervasive assumptions about natural or presumptive heterosexuality that are informed by ordinary and academic discourses on sexuality. The writing of this denaturalization was not done simply out of a desire to play with language or prescribe theatrical antics in the place of "real" politics, as some critics have conjectured (as if theatre and politics are always distinct). It was done from a desire to live, to make life possible, and to rethink the possible as such. ~ Judith Butler
Heterosexuality quotes by Judith Butler
War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men. ~ Morrissey
Heterosexuality quotes by Morrissey
Heterosexuality is not a thing. ~ Lauren Berlant
Heterosexuality quotes by Lauren Berlant
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself ... what they imitate is a phantasmic ideal of heterosexual identity ... gay identities work neither to copy nor emulate heterosexuality, but rather, to expose heterosexuality as an incessant and panicked imitation of its own naturalized idealization. That heterosexuality is always in the act of elaborating itself is evidence that it is perpetually at risk, that it, that it 'knows' it's own possibility of becoming undone ~ Judith Butler
Heterosexuality quotes by Judith Butler
I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems. ~ Edward Gorey
Heterosexuality quotes by Edward Gorey
You're into what you're into, I'm into what I'm into. We don't have to be into the same shit, and if you're safe, sane, and happy, then go on and get you some. ~ Matt Fraction
Heterosexuality quotes by Matt Fraction
If gender attributes and acts, the various ways in which a body shows or produces its cultural signification, are performative, then there is no preexisting identity by which an act or attribute might be measured; there would be no true or false, real or distorted acts of gender, and the postulation of a true gender identity would be revealed as a regulatory fiction.That gender reality is created through sustained social performances means that the very notions of an essential sex and a true or abiding masculinity or femininity are also constituted as part of the strategy that conceals gender's performative character and the performative possibilities for proliferating gender configurations outside the restricting frames of masculinist domination and compulsory heterosexuality. ~ Judith Butler
Heterosexuality quotes by Judith Butler
The effect of male-identification means 'internalizing the values of the colonizer and actively participating in carrying out the colonization of one's self and one's sex… Male identification is the act whereby women place men above women, including themselves, in credibility, status, and importance in most situations, regardless of the comparative quality the women may bring to the situation…. Interaction with women is seen as a lesser form of relating on every level. ~ Adrienne Rich
Heterosexuality quotes by Adrienne Rich
A woman writer, except in rare instances, has no protection such as enjoyed by men who use their wives and mistresses as a marline to save themselves from the wear and tear of interruption. ~ Miles Franklin
Heterosexuality quotes by Miles Franklin
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. ~ Jeanette Winterson
Heterosexuality quotes by Jeanette Winterson
...insofar as an American thinks that the sex he or she is having is an intimate, private thing constructed within a space governed by personal consent, she or he is having straight sex, straight sex authorized by national culture; she or he is practicing national heterosexuality... ~ Lauren Berlant
Heterosexuality quotes by Lauren Berlant
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ... ~ Audre Lorde
Heterosexuality quotes by Audre Lorde
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality. ~ Wendy Kaminer
Heterosexuality quotes by Wendy Kaminer
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. ~ Marguerite Duras
Heterosexuality quotes by Marguerite Duras
Are you talking about me?" Danny looked up from the pastry board, suspicion written clearly across his face.

"Just bemoaning your tragic heterosexuality," Win sighed, swinging his knives down on the prep station.

"Oh," Danny said, blinking. "Well. Sorry about that, but there's not much I can do about it."

Win waved that away. "No big. I'm not that into workplace romance, myself. ~ Louisa Edwards
Heterosexuality quotes by Louisa Edwards
People are going to say, "I was a lesbian back in the 90s" just like people say, "I was a hippie in the 60s". I see them struggling. Rich girls struggling with their heterosexuality. ~ John Waters
Heterosexuality quotes by John Waters
All this overt heterosexuality amused me. If only they knew. ~ Rita Mae Brown
Heterosexuality quotes by Rita Mae Brown
Heterosexual Questionnaire:
- What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
- Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
- To whom have you disclosed your heterosexuality?
- How did they react? ~ Martin Rochlin
Heterosexuality quotes by Martin Rochlin
Make no mistake, hiding one's true self away in a closet and creating a facade of heterosexuality is not without its consequences. It may appear to have a degree of safety but from my experience they are very unhealthy places and do all kinds of terrible things to individuals psychologically, emotionally and behaviourally ... to say nothing of projection. The damage of the fear, shame, guilt and self-loathing that exist inside a closet are often reflected unknowingly in the external life of the individual. In or out of the closet; there is a price to pay. Each individual must weigh up the consequences of honesty, openness, secrecy and deception for themselves. Coming out, for most of us, is like an exorcism that releases us of the darkness we have lived in for years and caused us to believe awful things about ourselves. On the other side of the looking glass are freedom, light and life. ~ Anthony Venn-Brown
Heterosexuality quotes by Anthony Venn-Brown
Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or social ostracism, in order to remain respectable, in order to do what was expected of women because coming out of "abnormal" childhoods they wanted to feel "normal," and because heterosexual romance has been represented as the great female adventure, duty, and fulfillment. We may faithfully or ambivalently have obeyed the institution, but our feelings - and our sensuality - have not been tamed
or contained within it. ~ Adrienne Rich
Heterosexuality quotes by Adrienne Rich
The historical record demonstrates that, on the contrary, many homosexuals chose heterosexuality and failed to maintain it because choice is less powerful than destiny. ~ Rictor Norton
Heterosexuality quotes by Rictor Norton
[W]hether it is debates over men sharing housework and child-rearing, the 'crisis' of marriage and behind that the broader crisis of male-female relationships in adjusting to social change, or the increased sympathy for (or at least tolerance of) lesbian and gay demands for equal legal rights, all these developments in heterosexuality are usually approached and conceptualised in piecemeal form and rarely provoke any debate about the changing nature of heterosexuality itself. ~ Richard Dunphy
Heterosexuality quotes by Richard Dunphy
I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant
Heterosexuality quotes by Marilyn Vos Savant
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission. ~ Catharine MacKinnon
Heterosexuality quotes by Catharine MacKinnon
The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer - the romantic - asserts that women are inevitably, even if rashly and tragically, drawn to men; that even when that attraction is suicidal (e. g, Tristan and Isolde, Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening') it is still an organic imperative. In the tradition of the social sciences it asserts that primary love between the sexes is 'normal,' that women need men as social and economic protectors, for adult sexuality, and for psychological completion; that the heterosexually constituted family is the basic social unit; that women who do not attach their primary intensity to men must be, in functional terms, condemned to an even more devastating outsiderhood than their outsiderhood as women. ~ Adrienne Rich
Heterosexuality quotes by Adrienne Rich
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. ~ Bruce Jackson
Heterosexuality quotes by Bruce Jackson
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen ... [Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny ... ~ Cheryl Clarke
Heterosexuality quotes by Cheryl Clarke
Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase 'same-sex marriage' for the term 'marriage equality'. This phrase is ordinarily implied to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was. Throughout much of history in the west, the laws defining marriage made the husband essentially an owner and the wife a possession. Or the man a boss and the woman a slave. ~ Rebecca Solnit
Heterosexuality quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Adrien treated heterosexuality like an urban legend. ~ Jay Bell
Heterosexuality quotes by Jay Bell
What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise - is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality. ~ Barbara Gittings
Heterosexuality quotes by Barbara Gittings
Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses ~ Bruce LaBruce
Heterosexuality quotes by Bruce LaBruce
I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ... ~ Audre Lorde
Heterosexuality quotes by Audre Lorde
Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns. ~ M.F. Moonzajer
Heterosexuality quotes by M.F. Moonzajer
I found, when circulating chapters from this book, that some readers feel I am too hard on heterosexuality. I do not mean to be coming out against it. I simply do not see why the nation has to have an official sexuality, especially one that authorizes the norm of a violent gentility; that narrows the field of legitimate political action; that supports the amputation of personal complexity into categories of simple identity; that uses cruel and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate. ~ Lauren Berlant
Heterosexuality quotes by Lauren Berlant
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality? ~ Judith Butler
Heterosexuality quotes by Judith Butler
Women are no longer required to be chaste or modest, to restrict their sphere of activity to the home, or even to realize their properly feminine destiny in maternity. Normative femininity [that is, the rules for being a good woman] is coming more and more to be centered on women's body - not its duties and obligations or even its capacity to bear children, but its sexuality, more precisely, its presumed heterosexuality and its appearance. . . . The woman who checks her makeup half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle, or who, feeling
fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate
of Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience
to patriarchy. ~ Rosemarie Tong
Heterosexuality quotes by Rosemarie Tong
I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice. ~ Marilyn Frye
Heterosexuality quotes by Marilyn Frye
The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were one flesh. You could track back this kind of alchemy in books: '...intimately to mix and melt and to be melted together with his beloved, so that one should be made out of two.' This is Shelley translating Plato, who was putting words into the mouth of Aristophanes, who's the only defender of heterosexual sex in the Symposium, although he makes it sound perverse. ~ Lorna Sage
Heterosexuality quotes by Lorna Sage
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality. ~ Judith Butler
Heterosexuality quotes by Judith Butler
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. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices ... Those definitions ... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men. ~ Marilyn Frye
Heterosexuality quotes by Marilyn Frye
Some men became fathers mainly to show that they are not gay. Some, only to hide the fact that they are. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Heterosexuality quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ~ Simone De Beauvoir
Heterosexuality quotes by Simone De Beauvoir
Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin? ~ Alex Sanchez
Heterosexuality quotes by Alex Sanchez
How do we define "normal?" Quite literally it comes from the Latin norma meaning "carpenter's square." Straight. And "abnormal?" That's from the Greek anomalos, and the Latin abnormis meaning "monstrosity. ~ Matt Fraction
Heterosexuality quotes by Matt Fraction
When the Lord entered my world, I experienced that gospel-ignited "expulsive power of a new affection" (to quote the title of Thomas Chalmers's famous sermon). That new affection was not heterosexuality, but Jesus, my Jesus, my friend and Savior. I was not converted out of homosexuality. I was converted out of unbelief. ~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Heterosexuality quotes by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them: ~ Marilyn Frye
Heterosexuality quotes by Marilyn Frye
I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered. ~ Ed Case
Heterosexuality quotes by Ed Case
Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance, boredom, fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality. ~ Terry Pratchett
Heterosexuality quotes by Terry Pratchett
The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality
whatever the current version of that concept happens to be
is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege. ~ Hanne Blank
Heterosexuality quotes by Hanne Blank
You can't go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all with. I love the fact that he didn't think heterosexuality resolved anything at all, meaning, I assume, that he didn't think it was enough just to be heterosexual. You read him and you are immediately convinced that the rest of the world is suffering a mass mental illness. I love writers like that. ~ Morrissey
Heterosexuality quotes by Morrissey
I've given up my living room, guest room, job, career, heterosexuality and my stance on no pets in the house, but I'm not giving up my room. I'm drawing a line. ~ Dani Alexander
Heterosexuality quotes by Dani Alexander
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition. ~ Alfred Kinsey
Heterosexuality quotes by Alfred Kinsey
I would rather be a womaniser than a sodomiser. ~ Habeeb Akande
Heterosexuality quotes by Habeeb Akande
How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it? ~ Didier Eribon
Heterosexuality quotes by Didier Eribon
Whether it's men, women - it doesn't really matter. The human race is filled with passion and lust. And to coin terms like heterosexuality, homosexuality or even bisexuality makes no sense to me. You are human. You love who you love. You fuck who you fuck. That should be enough - no labels. No stigmas. Nothing. Just be to be.
But life isn't that kind. People will always find things to hate. ~ Krista Ritchie
Heterosexuality quotes by Krista Ritchie
Most of us made a rather extensive study of heterosexuality before leaving it behind. -Pat Califia ~ Carol Queen
Heterosexuality quotes by Carol Queen
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be. ~ Jeanette Winterson
Heterosexuality quotes by Jeanette Winterson
My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the groups. So you don't do it, particularly if people in California vote on it, don't want it, they think that the heterosexuality is a societal stabilizer. ~ Bill O'Reilly
Heterosexuality quotes by Bill O'Reilly
We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act. ~ Gore Vidal
Heterosexuality quotes by Gore Vidal
I have chosen to use the terms lesbian existence and lesbian continuum because the word lesbianism has a clinical and limiting ring Lesbian existence suggests both the fact of the historical presence of lesbians and our continuing creation of the meaning of that existence I mean the term lesbian continuum to include a range - through each woman's life and throughout history - of woman-identified experience; not simply the fact that a woman has had or consciously desired genital sexual experience with another woman. If we expand it to embrace many more forms of primary intensity between and among women, including the sharing of a rich inner life, the bonding against male tyranny, the giving and receiving of practical and political support; if we can also hear in it such associations as marriage resistance and the 'haggard' behavior identified by Mary Daly (obsolete meanings 'intractable,' 'willful,' 'wanton,' and 'unchaste' a woman reluctant to yield to wooing') - we begin to grasp breadths of female history and psychology that have lain out of reach as a consequence of limited, mostly clinical, definitions of 'lesbianism.'

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life It is also a direct or indirect attack on male right of access to women But it is more than these, although we may first begin to perceive it as a form of nay-saying to patriarchy, an act or resistance It has of course included role playing, sel ~ Adrienne Rich
Heterosexuality quotes by Adrienne Rich
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