Quotes About Taboo

I don't walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella in a room. I have always been superstitious.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

I'm unbelievably superstitious.

She herself was a rape victim, attacked at a party when she was fifteen. It was 1963. Nobody talked about sex. Nobody talked about rape.

For some reason the past—any of our pasts—was solidly off-limits. They were like the creepy rabbits in Watership Down who won't answer any questions beginning with "Where.

periods are the only thing i can think of where its a problem if you don't bleed

my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.

My profession is the business of human rehabilitation, which goes today by the name of dancer… All the power of civilized morality, hand in hand with the capitalist economic system and its political institutions, is utterly opposed to using the body simply for the purpose, means, or tool of pleasure. Still more, to a production-oriented society, the aimless use of the body, which I call dance, is a deadly enemy which must be taboo.

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?

You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die—very not okay to be very okay with death.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

But somewhere, there is a skeleton. And that skeleton has a penis. And it will fuck your life.

The Cubans say that sex is the only thing that Castro hasn't rationed.

This guy I know went into a sex shop and asked the proprietor for a blow-up sex doll." "Is this a joke?" "So the proprietor asks, 'You want a Christian doll, a Jewish doll, or a Muslim doll?' And the guy says, 'What difference does it make?' And the proprietor says, 'Well, the Muslim dolls blow themselves up.

What are you thinking about?" "This guy I know went into a sex shop and asked the proprietor for a blow-up sex doll." "Is this a joke?" "So the proprietor asks, 'You want a Christian doll, a Jewish doll, or a Muslim doll?' And the guy says, 'What difference does it make?' And the proprietor says, 'Well, the Muslim dolls blow themselves up.