Quotes by Molly Haskell

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

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

“The mammary fixation is the most infantile and the most American, of the sex fetishes”

“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, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat”

“Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends”

“The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keep us going.”

“The propaganda arm of the American Dream machine -- Hollywood.”

“There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.”

“Certainly, 40 is the new 25-plus and has been for some time.”

“It may also be that movies are discovering, or rediscovering, the female audience. Theyre a big factor in DVD purchase, and, as the big-budget films tank, it may lead to at least some rethinking of the go-for-broke bottom-line, franchise-film philosophy.”

“But whats more refreshing is that, except for Nicole Kidman - with her eerily unlined face - theyre not trying to look or act 25, ... These [40-plus] women all have, for me, a must-see quality as opposed to some of the younger ones. Kate Hudson, for example, just doesnt have the star power or personality of [her mother] Goldie Hawn.”

“But whats more refreshing is that, except for Nicole Kidman -- with her eerily unlined face -- theyre not trying to look or act 25,”

“But whats more refreshing is that, except for Nicole Kidman - with her eerily unlined face - theyre not trying to look or act 25. These [40-plus] women all have, for me, a must-see quality as opposed to some of the younger ones. Kate Hudson, for example, just doesnt have the star power or personality of [her mother] Goldie Hawn.”

“La Cage aux Folles is a square love story in titillating drag that has become the Charleys Aunt of the 1980s.”

Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.

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