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Heterosexuality Quotes

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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

Authors on Heterosexuality Quotes: Marilyn Frye Judith Butler Lauren Berlant Bruce LaBruce Michelene Wandor Jacqueline Woodson Thomas Szasz Margaret Mead Shirley Geok-lin Lim Sigmund Freud Barbara Gittings John D. MacDonald Zadie Smith Adrienne Rich
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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

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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 the male right of access to women.
Adrienne Rich

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Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.
Thomas Szasz

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I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.
Marilyn Frye

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Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses
Bruce LaBruce

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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
Sigmund Freud

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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
John D. MacDonald

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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
Zadie Smith

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Heterosexuality is not a thing.
Lauren Berlant

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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
Margaret Mead

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I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.
Marilyn Frye

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Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual relationships is still a valid one, it is no longer one I can espouse--so to speak. There is no revolutionary hope for the heterosexual, and I have therefore decided to love myself and become a lesbian.
Michelene Wandor

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I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.
Jacqueline Woodson

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When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ". And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.
Judith Butler