Quotes About Taboo

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

If we men were required to wear sized penis stockings outside our pants, our discussions of women's breasts would be markedly less frequent and our preferences more vaguely defined.

Suicide, the dog continued, is the most heroic act, which no animal save for man dares to commit or could ever contemplate.

The rape of "ladies" was strictly taboo, but this protection did not apply to women and girls without social standing.) The fear of rape, as well as the actual experience, gave a unique twist to women's experience of the Revolutionary War.

As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might as well go full force on it.

That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.

I am a very superstitious person.

Nancy is superstitious.

I'm extremely superstitious.

I'm a little superstitious.

I'm superstitious.

I'm very superstitious.

I'm really superstitious.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

There are things that certain people aren't supposed to talk about and they're supposed to keep sheltered and go to psychologists and they try to figure them out on their own. But at the end of the day, we're all human.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Any surgery done to improve one's looks is not really something someone wants to talk about.

Crazy is often a euphemism for unbearable suffering.

Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Religion . . . has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not?—because you're not!

But think about why it is impolite to ask such direct, factual questions of religious people today. It is because it is embarrassing! But it is the answer that is embarrassing, if it is yes.

merely bringing up facts that were well known in the scientific community, but perhaps best not discussed in public. A Papua New Guinea language has a term for this, Mokita. It means 'truth that we all know, but agree not to talk about.

The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself.