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

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

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

- Molly Haskell

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

- Molly Haskell

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

- Molly Haskell

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

- Molly Haskell

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

- 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,…

- Molly Haskell