Quotes About Taboo

Most people don't go around talking about their miscarriages. It's not really something you shout about. What's more, people often feel embarrassed or even guilty about them.

Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.

there were things I thought needed saying and I knew that other people were reluctant to say them

We always want what we're not allowed.

Only the young and the beautiful should be allowed to fuck.

Kudra was amused by Alobar's tentative polka until her eyes fell upon the tumescent protrusion dancing with him. Disgusting she thought. An erection is just inappropriate. Then she realized with a shock that she was so wet that children could have sailed toy boats in her underpants.

On Sa-bat, from which comes our Sabbath, men as well as women were commanded to rest, for when the moon menstruated, the taboo was on everyone. Originally (and naturally) observed once a month, the Sabbath was later to be incorporated by the Christians into their Creation myth and made conveniently weekly.

who not only had once posed for naked pictures but who, on at least two occasions, had openly expressed reservations about Rome's prohibition against birth control.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

No mischlinge in journalism, the creative arts, the performing arts, literature . . . Culture is verboten.

People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.

It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste.

I've learned that some things are almost impossible to talk about because they're things no one wants to know. ? ? ? Not even me.

And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).

To find out who rules over you, just learn who you are not allowed to criticize

To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.

I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

Do . . . you . . . speak . . . English?" she asks. NO, BUT I SPEAK CUNT.

He looks like a bear and I don't know how any woman could be intimate with him if she weren't allowed to whip him.

If I'd known about all the masturbating I would generate—well, that would've been extraordinarily weird from many angles and I'm glad it didn't come up, as it were.

let's face it, the world of sex is weird no matter how you look at it. I mean—fourteen hours after you've had your face smashed into someone's genitals, you're walking down the street with the boy as though that were all "just fine, thank you, how are you!

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean it's good for you.