Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Catherine McCormack

Quote by Catherine McCormack

Work

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Catherine McCormack
Catherine McCormack

Catherine McCormack, born on April 3, 1972, is a British actress known for her versatile performances in various film and television projects. more

You May Also Like

“With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is so, for we would otherwise have been faced with Celine Dion singing "My Liver Belongs to You" and movie houses playing The Liver Is a Lonely Hunter. Every Spanish love song that contains the word corazon, which is all of them, would contain the somewhat less lilting higado, and bumper stickers would proclaim, "I [liver symbol] my Pekingese.”

HeartSoulHumorScienceLiver
Book:Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Create image

“Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporary viewer they have become a reassuring confirmation of left-of-centre politics, of anti-establishment positions and of an intellectual kudos that doesn’t need art to look classical to be meaningful. And the frankness of the male artist’s unflinchingly libidinal vision is taken as evidence of the separation from restrictive bourgeois respectability and taste.”

Women S BodiesVisual ArtsMale ArtistsLeft Wing Ideology
Book:Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
Create image

“All right," said Eden. "After all, we've got to hide somewhere. And even if they move on a bit faster than we can, they'll still leave signs, won't they? "Yes, they'll drip blood and leave echoes of people laughing," said Timon in a dark voice. Eden looked at him apprehensively. But then Timon laughed himself. "Joking! Joking! Only joking!" he cried, and Eden nodded, echoing his laughter rather uncertainly.”

GarlandMaddigans FantasiaMargaret MahyMaddigan S FantasiaTimon And Eden
Book:Maddigan's Fantasia
Create image

“I will tell you what he did and let you be the judge. (Or try to tell you, because there are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less, and this is one of them. It can be told; I could take that many sentences, repeat the bold blank naked and outrageous words just as he spoke them, and bequeath you only that same aghast and outraged unbelief I knew when I comprehended what he meant; or take three thousand sentences and leave you only that Why? Why? and Why? that I have asked and listened to for almost fifty years.) But I will let you be the judge and let you tell me if I was right.”

Absalom Absalom
Book:Absalom, Absalom!
Create image