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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/madness-is-always-fascinating-for-it-reveals-the-ungluing-we-all/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

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## Other authors on Fear Mind

## More by Molly Haskell

> [“We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/we-are-a-rotating-cast-of-aspects-of-self-that-are-shown-to-one/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/american-eroticism-has-always-been-of-a-different-provenance-and/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/the-thought-that-we-are-enduring-the-unendurable-is-one-of-the-things/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/the-mammary-fixation-is-the-most-american-of-the-sex-fetishes/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/charles-reich-discredits-reason-because-it-has-been-used-to-justify/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [The mammary fixation is the most infantile and the most American, of the sex fetishes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/the-mammary-fixation-is-the-most-infantile-and-the-most-american-of/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/movies-both-reflect-and-create-social-conditions-but-their-special/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/there-are-two-cinemas-the-films-we-have-actually-seen-and-the/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [ \[On swingers:\] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/on-swingers-they-have-gone-from-puritanism-into-promiscuity-without/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/but-one-of-the-attributes-of-love-like-art-is-to-bring-harmony-and/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/being-alone-and-liking-it-is-for-a-woman-an-act-of-treachery-an/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/as-so-often-happens-in-marriage-roles-that-had-begun-almost-playfully/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/i-would-trade-many-an-art-film-classic-for-the-final-exchange-between/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/madness-is-always-fascinating-for-it-reveals-the-ungluing-we-all/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

> [For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-haskell/for-a-woman-there-is-nothing-more-erotic-than-being-understood/)

[Molly Haskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-haskell/)

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