Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
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. — 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 Image
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 Image
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
...(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 Image
The mammary fixation is the most infantile and the most American, of the sex fetishes — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
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 Image
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
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 Image
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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