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Quotes by Helen Lawrenson

Helen Lawrenson

“These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.”

“[Their] uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breast, teeth, and hair.”

“A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.”

Whatever else can be said about sex it cannot be called a dignified performance.

You have to go back to the Childrens Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Womens Liberation Movement.