Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Janet Morris

Quote by Janet Morris

Author

Janet Morris
Janet Morris

Janet Morris is an American author born on May 25, 1946. Her works span across multiple genres including fantasy, science fiction, and adventure novels, known for her rich imagination and unique narrative style. more

You May Also Like

“In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.”

DifferentWarBodySeemsMotherAskingSexualityAppealsLeapWarmthCosmicProjectionPulseUnrealHelplessnessDescentOmnipotentInfantileAsking For ForgivenessSupplicationPossessivenessMergers
Book:Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
Create image

“In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.”

HumansInspirationSeemsLawNaturalConflictInstitutionsExtraordinarySexualityBoundariesBizarre
Author:Marquis de Sade
Create image