Molly Haskell Quotes
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.
Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.
...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.
I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.