#taboo

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time. ↗

— Tove Jansson

#intelligent-conversation #taboo #death

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone. ↗

— Lewis Black

#damned-if-you-don-t #religion #taboo #faith

Fight for change? Thirst for difference? Start talking what men avoid talking about. ↗

— Toba Beta

#change #difference #fight #start-talking #taboo

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try." "Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try. ↗

— Leah Raeder

#love #relationship #taboo #love

When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#bound #cry #get #guy #i

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else. ↗

— Anselm Kiefer

#anymore #anywhere #became #else #end

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#breaking #change #discussion #feel #i

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. "One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right". ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#dinner #dog #dog-meat #dogs #garlic

But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me? ↗

— Maryam Schonbeck

#romantic #taboo #love

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ↗

— Freda Adler

#certain #cover #culture #description #each