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Quotes About Taboo

It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- Darling, could you stroke my vagina?-- you kill the act right there. I'm worried about vaginas, what we call them and don't call them.
~ Eve Ensler
Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Don't say wife. I'm your mistress. Wife's such un ugly word.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.
~ Ryan Hansen
Society has a fascination with death.
~ Sheryl Lee
Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.
~ Ralphie May
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
~ Jeff Dunham
There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'
~ Seth MacFarlane
I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.
~ Alicia Silverstone
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I was taught nothing about the suffragettes in school. The version I eventually got was mainly about the peaceful campaigning of the constitutional suffragists. Their work was vital, but there was this other, not widely known story of the women who risked everything, who were prepared to break every taboo.
~ Sarah Gavron
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
~ Salman Rushdie
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
~ William Hazlitt
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
~ Milos Zeman
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
~ Louis C. K.
Why are we so terrified of a natural process that allows for life to be brought into this world? Why do we scramble to hide our tampons when we pull them out of our purses?
~ Rupi Kaur
A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.
~ Alexander Chee
Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.
~ Bill Goldberg
What do you two know about cocaine?' 'Goes well sprinkled on toast,
~ Robert Muchamore
This is not the way things are done in Boy's Own Adventure books. I recall no mentions of homosexual gang-rape and cannibalism
~ Robert Rankin
untill he felt Ingeborg slip two fingers into her vagina and then moisten the entrance to her ass with the same fingers and ask him, no, order, him to penetrate her, sodomize her, right now, immediately, before another moment passed, which Reiter did without thinking twice…
~ Roberto Bolano
Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary.
~ Roberto Bolano