Jeanne Moreau Quotes

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a cheat. It is an attempt to provide sexual experience by secondhand means. Now sex is a thing which has to be experienced firsthand, if you are really going to understand it, and pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. It's not the same thing. Sex is primarily a question of relationships. Pornography is a do-it-yourself kit--a twenty-second best.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

My approach has always been rather sensual.

I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.

What love life? I'm not gay, but I might as well be.

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

You can fall in love with anyone. I naturally migrate toward men first; some people may be more open about it. Personally, it's not me.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.

Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness.

How does a guy look at another guy's hairy ass, and find love?