Quotes by Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell

…(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

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Mother

War

[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

Gone

Passing

Sex

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

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Different

Sensual

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

Marriage

Suits Of Armor

Taken

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Adultery

Infidelity

Solitude

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Art

Love

Order

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Erotic

Haskell

Understood

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

Airports

Night

Weekend

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Art

Classic

Finals

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

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Understanding

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Quotes by Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell

…(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

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