She knew that Marcel needed her and that she needed this need, that it kept her alive night and day; especially at night when he d...id not want to be alone, or to age or to die, with that stubborn look he had, and that she sometimes recognized on other men's faces, the only look common to all the madmen hidden behind airs of reason, until the delirium rises and throws them, desperate, to a woman's body to bury, without desire, the frightening things that solitude and night have shown them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For above all, pornography is ritual. It is an enacted drama that is laden with meaning, which imparts a vision of the world. The ...altar for the ritual is a woman's body. And the ritual which is carried out on this altar is the desecration of flesh. Here, what is sacred within the body is degraded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a ...man in a woman's body--you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For women ... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine ...image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the movie woman's world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it's all the... same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, t...he black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a ch...thonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »