Quote by Molly Haskell Download Open image “For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.” — Molly Haskell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the… — Audre Lorde 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