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Quotes About Taboo

Sex, Emma thought. It curdled the mind and turned one into a drooling idiot. She had firsthand knowledge.
~ Kate Rothwell
Eating someone was such a big step. He
~ Gabriel King
Ruby laughed. "Mrs. Morgan says people shouldn't use 'douchebag' in a negative way, because it turns a feminine hygiene product into a bad word. She says there's nothing wrong with a douchebag except that douching itself creates an unhealthy climate for a vagina.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Quieres saber por qué me sentí mal en realidad? En Nueva York el aborto no es ningún tabú, forma parte de la cultura, y aun así la ley del aborto no se aprobó hasta que fue demasiado tarde para cientos de chicas que los necesitaban al mismo tiempo que yo. ¿No podían haberla aprobado con carácter retroactivo y habernos enviado una disculpa escrita?
~ Gail Parent
words are merely loose gravel until glued together by the mortar of obscenity.
~ Gardner Dozois
Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Talking about music is like talking about sex. Can you describe it? Are you supposed to?
~ Bruce Springsteen
Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.
~ Bryan Talbot
The schoolmastering profession has always attracted homosexual flagellants
~ Burgo Partridge
I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Once you get over the simple unpleasantness of it - I suspect most people would gag, the first time - it is easier to wipe somebody else's bum than it is your own, because you can see what you're doing and use both hands at once if necessary. The whole process is much more efficient and uses no more toilet paper than is strictly required, so it's better for the environment, too. If we were really green we'd all have somebody else wipe our bums, though I can't see it catching on.
~ Iain Banks
5 ....... NIGGER HEAVEN
~ Ian Fleming
I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn't want to be late.
~ Ilona Andrews
The pervert. He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant. Semantics.
~ Ilona Andrews
I had to try to understand how much of a taboo it was. My mum worked in ballet and theatre when she was younger, and I had been brought up around lots of gay people, so I had never had any issue and couldn't imagine how hard it was to be out.
~ George MacKay
Today's generation likes stand-up comedies in which the performers give their take on a number of subjects. Some of them are a taboo, but youngsters enjoy them. However, when we act in a drama, what is uppermost on our mind is the people's perceptions and opinions.
~ Ashok Saraf
It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
~ Rachel Cusk
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
~ Tom Lehrer
It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
~ Idi Amin
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
~ Emma Goldman
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
~ Paul Bettany
The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
~ Amy Bloom
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
~ Robert Mankoff
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
~ Karl Kraus