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. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
“We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial… — Molly Haskell Copy Share
American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer… — Molly Haskell Copy Share
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. — Molly Haskell Copy Share
...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has… — Molly Haskell Copy Share
The mammary fixation is the most infantile and the most American, of the sex fetishes — Molly Haskell Copy Share
Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume… — Molly Haskell Copy Share
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them. — Molly Haskell Copy Share
[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. — Molly Haskell Copy Share
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where… — Molly Haskell Copy Share
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. — Molly Haskell Copy Share
As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits… — Molly Haskell Copy Share
I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza. — Molly Haskell Copy Share
Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the… — Molly Haskell Copy Share
