"The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and……" — Marina Warner
"The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust."
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17 Quotes by Marina Warner
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that…
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Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers…
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The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the…
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and…
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Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also…
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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a…
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