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Creativity Quote by Kylie Minogue

"I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it"

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Kylie Minogue’s line lands with the disarming neatness of a pop hook: candid, slightly mischievous, and engineered to defuse scandal without pretending desire doesn’t exist. “I’ve fancied other women” is both a confession and a tease, a controlled flash of queerness that reads as honest but not destabilizing. Then comes the pivot: “but I haven’t done anything about it,” a phrase that turns intimacy into action and action into a moral ledger. The subtext is less about sexuality than about management - of reputation, of relationships, of the public’s appetite for revelation.

It’s a masterclass in celebrity-era boundary setting. Minogue acknowledges attraction (the part tabloids and fans alike want) while withholding the narrative payoff (the part that would get packaged as an identity statement, a headline, a “Kylie comes out” arc). The tension between “fancied” and “done” is where it works: “fancied” is soft, almost old-fashioned, safely romantic; “done anything” is blunt, pragmatic, and implies consequences. She’s letting the audience peek behind the curtain, but only for a beat.

Context matters because Minogue’s persona has long been calibrated: approachable, flirtatious, resilient, never messy. This quote fits that brand of controlled vulnerability, offering a human truth - desire is messy, behavior is chosen - while keeping the spotlight where pop stars survive best: on the performance, not the confession.

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Later attribution: Secrets of the Combined Astrology (Zakariya Adeel, 2016) modern compilationISBN: 9781782794677 · ID: Spf4CwAAQBAJ
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... Kylie Minogue has said, “I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like ... I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it... Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.” Like all ...
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Signs and Tokens (Charles Dickens, 1853) primary60.0%
Song: "Signs and Tokens" by Charles Dickens
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Minogue, Kylie. (2026, March 12). I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-fancied-other-women-but-i-havent-done-135686/

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Minogue, Kylie. "I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it." FixQuotes. March 12, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-fancied-other-women-but-i-havent-done-135686/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it." FixQuotes, 12 Mar. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-fancied-other-women-but-i-havent-done-135686/. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.

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Kylie Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is a Musician from Australia.

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