Molly Haskell Citas

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

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  Fate, Understanding, Tools

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• The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

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  Lying, Civilization, Ideas

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Hay dos cines: las películas que hemos visto realmente y los recuerdos que tenemos de ellas.

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  Movie, Memories, Two

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

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  Literature, Film, Heroines

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• Pero uno de los atributos del amor, como del arte, es sacar armonía y orden del caos, introducir significado y afecto donde antes no los había, dar variaciones rítmicas, altibajos a un paisaje que antes era plano.

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  Love, Art, Order

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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

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  Solitude, Infidelity, Adultery

  Molly Haskell (1992). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, Citadel Press

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• 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.

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  Marriage, Taken, Suits Of Armor

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse

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• The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

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  Adversity, Unendurable, Haskell

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.96, iUniverse

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• Para una mujer no hay nada más erótico que ser comprendida.

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  Erotic, Haskell, Understood

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• The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

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  Revenge, Democracy, Internet

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

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  Art, Finals, Classic

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• The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

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  Sex, Haskell, Fixation

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• ...(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, Meals

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• Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

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  Insanity, Mind, World

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.84, iUniverse

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• One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

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  Love Is, Order, Chaos

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• 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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  Sensual, Cartoon, Different

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

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• Las películas reflejan y crean condiciones sociales, pero su encanto especial consiste en ofrecer ropajes de fantasía como realidad virtual, un mundo donde la gente consume sin el tedio del trabajo. Los personajes flotan en un mundo en el que la factura nunca vence... ¡y nos preguntamos por qué somos una nación deudora!

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  Movie, Character, Reality

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

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  Sex, Gone, Passing

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

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  Weekend, Night, Airports

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.34, iUniverse

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