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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

Book by Molly Haskell · 6 quotes · Haskell, Attributes, Chaos

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“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.”

“The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.”