Gwen Stefani Quotes

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

I don't see men or women as my sexual objects. I keep myself out of that equation.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

I am not a sex symbol.

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.

I'm quite cool about my sex symbol image. It's nothing to be proud of or ashamed of.

When a woman who is sexual takes off her top, it plays into something.

I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

I really was more sexual than my classmates.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

I don't know any woman in France who doesn't talk to firemen and smile at them, because they're always so sweet, and they're wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

Sexuality is so much more complex than our boobs. My sexuality isn't me as an object to be looked at. It's the way I say "hello" to somebody, the way I sit with somebody. A body is just a body. But we're really afraid of bodies. They hold a lot of power - I think that's why people can try to shame them so easily, because they are so powerful.

It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it doesn't really reveal itself very often in my personal life, which I do find problematic.