Quotes About Taboo

Silent or gagged women are powerless women. A powerful woman is one who can speak out to challenge existing power structures or to explore previously taboo territory.

But then, no one told the whole truth about sex. And in that respect, nothing has changed.

it was understood that the word "Redmond" would be treated in their house rather as though someone had silently broken wind in company. Its occurrence was distasteful but occasionally unavoidable, and while it could be politely ignored, it was certainly not encouraged or enjoyed.

refused to bless a house with a cat in it.

Cash was like sex. You didn't talk about it unless you weren't getting enough of it.

If I was in charge of the dictionary I would have a right clear-out of words. Words like 'necrophilia' I'd get rid of. If someone has that (attraction to dead bodies), I'd make them say, 'I fancy dead bodies'. Then, at least when they tell people, they might realise how mental it sounds rather than it being hidden in a posh word. And then they'll stop having the problem. The fact that it has its own word makes it seem more acceptable.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].