Molly Haskell

“We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in…

— Molly Haskell

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that…

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your…

— Molly Haskell

The mammary fixation is the most infantile and the most American, of the sex fetishes

— Molly Haskell

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where…

— Molly Haskell

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and…

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened…

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility…

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

“Depending on your point of view, Ashley (or Leslie Howard) was sensitive, poetic, and enigmatic-- or wan and a wimp. Rhett/Clark Gable…

— Molly Haskell

The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour…

— Molly Haskell

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

— Molly Haskell

“Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.”

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell

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

— Molly Haskell