Quotes About Taboo

I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories - harrowing stories that reduced many of us listeners to tears. But with each story, the taboo around domestic abuse weakens and the silence that surrounds it is broken, so other sufferers can know that there is hope for them and they are not alone.

I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

There were plenty of times before I did stand-up where I needed counselling, but I didn't go because it would have meant I was officially ill.

From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.

Sex can be a squeamish subject even when cancer isn't part of the picture, so the combination of sex and cancer together can feel impossible to talk about.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Going the bold way somehow has a very negative connotation in Bollywood.

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

They eat every part of them, including the testicles. I don't eat the testicles. I don't want anybody eating on mine, so I won't eat on anybody's. I eat the hams, ribs, and shoulders. I enjoy them. Once you start eating testicles, it's like you've gone cannibalistic.

names that were so bad that when they dared to whisper them (bitch-cunt-whore-poet) to each other beneath the bedclothes, they were like poison in the air.

Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.

Among the Yuit Eskimos of St. Lawrence Island, if an individual requested suicide three times, relatives were obligated to assist in the killing. The person seeking suicide dressed in ritual death garb and then was killed in a "destroying place" set aside specifically for that purpose. To save commonly held resources of food or to allow a nomadic society to move on unhindered by the physically ill or elderly, some societies gave tacit if not explicit approval to suicide.

Miss Emily's lecture that day was typical of what I'm talking about. We'd be focusing on sex, and then the other stuff would creep in. I suppose that was all part of how we came to be "told and not told.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?