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Top 30 Angela Chen Quotes (2025 Update)

Angela Chen Quote: “If aces make a big deal out of being ace and demand to be recognized, if we have created groups of our own, it is because we want a place away from sexual pressure. If we fight for visibility and change, it is because we want that pressure to be lifted for others too.”

1. “If aces make a big deal out of being ace and demand to be recognized, if we have created groups of our own, it is because we want a place away from sexual pressure. If we fight for visibility and change, it is because we want that pressure to be lifted for others too.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “It is true that many women are inhibited and perhaps do not yet know it. It is not true that inside everyone unwilling to try a threesome is a freak desperate to let her flag fly. Perhaps there is no flag.”

2. “It is true that many women are inhibited and perhaps do not yet know it. It is not true that inside everyone unwilling to try a threesome is a freak desperate to let her flag fly. Perhaps there is no flag.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “I had understood that asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction while celibacy is the lack of sexual behavior.”

3. “I had understood that asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction while celibacy is the lack of sexual behavior.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “Like anthropologists after a day of fieldwork, we commiserate about the mysteries of the local culture, even though it is actually the culture that we were born into – just one that, for a long time, had no room for us and our way of being. There is room now.”

4. “Like anthropologists after a day of fieldwork, we commiserate about the mysteries of the local culture, even though it is actually the culture that we were born into – just one that, for a long time, had no room for us and our way of being. There is room now.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “Aces aren’t a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle.”

5. “Aces aren’t a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.”

6. “A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “The truth of the gender inequality in sexual freedom, and the importance of teaching women to honor their sexual desires, has distorted into the belief that female sexual liberation only looks like one thing – and that’s the opposite of what women’s lives looked like before. Overcorrection doesn’t solve the problem. It only redistributes the shame and the stigma.”

7. “The truth of the gender inequality in sexual freedom, and the importance of teaching women to honor their sexual desires, has distorted into the belief that female sexual liberation only looks like one thing – and that’s the opposite of what women’s lives looked like before. Overcorrection doesn’t solve the problem. It only redistributes the shame and the stigma.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “Another thing you need to remember, and something that, for some reason, has never really occurred to you before: You can ask things of others too. You can ask them to compromise. It is not always you who have to.”

8. “Another thing you need to remember, and something that, for some reason, has never really occurred to you before: You can ask things of others too. You can ask them to compromise. It is not always you who have to.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “Relationships should always be a game of mix and match, not a puzzle that you have to perfectly snap into, or a Jenga tower that will collapse as soon as you try to wiggle one block out of place. Customizability is the best part, yet most people try so hard to make their relationship stick to its premade form, a one-size-fits-all shape. Many people don’t take advantage of their own freedom.”

9. “Relationships should always be a game of mix and match, not a puzzle that you have to perfectly snap into, or a Jenga tower that will collapse as soon as you try to wiggle one block out of place. Customizability is the best part, yet most people try so hard to make their relationship stick to its premade form, a one-size-fits-all shape. Many people don’t take advantage of their own freedom.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “Difference can be a gift. Being ace can mean less interpersonal drama and more freedom from social norms around relationships. It is an opportunity to focus more on other passions, to be less distracted by sexuality, to break the scripts, to choose your own adventure and your own values.”

10. “Difference can be a gift. Being ace can mean less interpersonal drama and more freedom from social norms around relationships. It is an opportunity to focus more on other passions, to be less distracted by sexuality, to break the scripts, to choose your own adventure and your own values.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “In the desire to be respected, people become ableist and prejudiced, straining to present ourselves as happy and healthy when it should be fine to be ace and unhappy and unhealthy, like all the unhappy and unhealthy straight people out there.”

11. “In the desire to be respected, people become ableist and prejudiced, straining to present ourselves as happy and healthy when it should be fine to be ace and unhappy and unhealthy, like all the unhappy and unhealthy straight people out there.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “Transgressive personal sexuality shouldn’t be the price of entry to radical spaces and sexual liberation shouldn’t be the sum of women’s liberation. They.”

12. “Transgressive personal sexuality shouldn’t be the price of entry to radical spaces and sexual liberation shouldn’t be the sum of women’s liberation. They.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “For me, “hot” conveyed an admiration of excellent bone structure.”

13. “For me, “hot” conveyed an admiration of excellent bone structure.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Heterosexuality is not merely a sexual orientation that happens to be the orientation of most people. Heterosexuality is a political institution that is taught and conditioned and reinforced.”

14. “Heterosexuality is not merely a sexual orientation that happens to be the orientation of most people. Heterosexuality is a political institution that is taught and conditioned and reinforced.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Sexuality of any kind never exists in a vacuum. It is not broken down easily but is affected by biology and culture, by our emotional state and mental health, by race and class and gender and the passing of time.”

15. “Sexuality of any kind never exists in a vacuum. It is not broken down easily but is affected by biology and culture, by our emotional state and mental health, by race and class and gender and the passing of time.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Men who are ace and homoromantic tell me that compulsory sexuality in the gay community makes them feel doubly ostracized.”

16. “Men who are ace and homoromantic tell me that compulsory sexuality in the gay community makes them feel doubly ostracized.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Straight people are rarely treated like they’re close-minded for knowing their sexual orientation, but aces are assumed to be unsure and always on the brink of finding the person who will change everything.”

17. “Straight people are rarely treated like they’re close-minded for knowing their sexual orientation, but aces are assumed to be unsure and always on the brink of finding the person who will change everything.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “The ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach.”

18. “The ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “It turns out that the key to capturing ace and allo experience alike is explaining sexual attraction via negativa, or explaining what it is not and what a lack of sexual attraction does not prevent us from doing.”

19. “It turns out that the key to capturing ace and allo experience alike is explaining sexual attraction via negativa, or explaining what it is not and what a lack of sexual attraction does not prevent us from doing.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “I still don’t have any idea what this energy is. This may be the unifying ace call...”

20. “I still don’t have any idea what this energy is. This may be the unifying ace call...”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality.”

21. “Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “It was like the first step, the key that opened the box that had a lot of confusing other boxes. Asexuality was just the clearest one and it helped me get more into the complexities of my identity.”

22. “It was like the first step, the key that opened the box that had a lot of confusing other boxes. Asexuality was just the clearest one and it helped me get more into the complexities of my identity.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “As one person put it: “Almost everyone looks the exact same to me in terms of attractiveness, except Matt Bomer. He’s pretty.”

23. “As one person put it: “Almost everyone looks the exact same to me in terms of attractiveness, except Matt Bomer. He’s pretty.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Liberated sexuality – that is, sexuality free from social shaming – can look like promiscuity or it can look like celibacy.”

24. “Liberated sexuality – that is, sexuality free from social shaming – can look like promiscuity or it can look like celibacy.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy.”

25. “Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Aces have developed a new lens that prioritizes what is just over what is supposedly natural.”

26. “Aces have developed a new lens that prioritizes what is just over what is supposedly natural.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “He did not consider that lust might not be a struggle at all, that he had invented a struggle because he was told that he must have something to struggle against.”

27. “He did not consider that lust might not be a struggle at all, that he had invented a struggle because he was told that he must have something to struggle against.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “It requires us to use the language of “lack,” claiming we are legitimate in spite of being deficient, while struggling to explain exactly what it is we don’t get.”

28. “It requires us to use the language of “lack,” claiming we are legitimate in spite of being deficient, while struggling to explain exactly what it is we don’t get.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Aces didn’t discover these experiences. We merely paid attention and tried to better describe them. Breaking the link between aesthetic and romantic and sexual attraction makes it possible to understand each type on its own terms instead of mistaking one for the other. New ways to talk about attraction mean new ways to think about attraction, to more clearly evaluate a bond.”

29. “Aces didn’t discover these experiences. We merely paid attention and tried to better describe them. Breaking the link between aesthetic and romantic and sexual attraction makes it possible to understand each type on its own terms instead of mistaking one for the other. New ways to talk about attraction mean new ways to think about attraction, to more clearly evaluate a bond.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach. They are, like Lucid said, keys. Intellectual entryways to the ace world and other worlds. Offerings of language for as long as they bring value.”

30. “Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach. They are, like Lucid said, keys. Intellectual entryways to the ace world and other worlds. Offerings of language for as long as they bring value.”

— Angela Chen

Angela Chen Quote: “The erasure of variation means the erasure of choice and the triumph of stereotype and stigma.”

31. “The erasure of variation means the erasure of choice and the triumph of stereotype and stigma.”

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Angela Chen Quote: “Many people roll their eyes at the ever-more-specific terms that crop up and believe that the more words there are, the less legitimate each particular one is. For skeptics, these terms smack of Tumblr and fake identities and people under the age of eighteen who are special snowflakes.”

32. “Many people roll their eyes at the ever-more-specific terms that crop up and believe that the more words there are, the less legitimate each particular one is. For skeptics, these terms smack of Tumblr and fake identities and people under the age of eighteen who are special snowflakes.”

— Angela Chen

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