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.
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film. - Molly Haskell
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
- 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 that merely to recog… - 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 that merely to recog…
As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and tak… - 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 of armor and tak…
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. - Molly Haskell
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy. - Molly Haskell
The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. - Molly Haskell
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them. - Molly Haskell
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood. - Molly Haskell
For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none,… - 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 before there was none,…
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