Airports Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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 mother has…

— 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 people consume…

— 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 affect where…

— 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 like suits…

— Molly Haskell