Corsets Quotes - Page 2

• Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?

  Christopher Ryan

  Children, Husband, Two

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• When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

  James Laver

  Women, Mean, Skirts

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• I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Believe, Play, House

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• Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Trying, Wigs

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• I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

  Brenda Blethyn

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Apes, Said, Damn

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• Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Feet, Chinese, Answers

  Mary Jo Putney (2006). “The China Bride”, p.190, Ballantine Books

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• I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Law, Watches

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• I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

  Raquel Zimmermann

  Hate, Ideas, Torture

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• I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Girl, Letting Go, Fashion

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• I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Believe, Red, Matter

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.1064, Penguin

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• Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Feet, Uganda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.

  Annie Lennox

  Cutting, Hair, Interesting

  "The Look: Annie Lennox". Interview with Harry Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

  Karl Kraus

  German Language, Littles, Today

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Thinking, Moon, Space

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit going around or something because you get that blood sugar [dropping] thing, so it's curious because that's in your mind at the same time as you're about to say, 'I think it's about the humanity and the depth of feeling and we need to feel [Cinderella] soul expand and by the way, more cheese for the people in the back.'

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Blood, People

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

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• Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

  Robin Tunney

  Giving, Three, Actors

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• I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset...can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!

  Buster Keaton

  Play, Clothes, Toes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Blue, Leather Jackets

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• Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

  Allen Ginsberg

  Reading, Eye, Winter

  Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish, Part I”

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• Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Legends, Call Me

  "Dark Side of the Moon".

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• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  Paul Gauguin

  Law, Weakness, Anomalies

  Paul Gauguin (1987). “Gauguin: a retrospective”, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

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• When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

  Mireille Enos

  New York, Years, Interesting

  "Q&A – Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2011.

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• Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are you feeling?" Alexia took a breath. "Truthfully? I sometimes wonder if I, like Madame Lefoux, should affect masculine dress." "Gracious me, why?" "You mean aside from the issue of greater mobility?" "My love, I don't think that's currently the result of your clothing." "Indeed, I mean after the baby." "I still don't see why should want to." "Oh no? I dare you to spend a week in a corset, long skirts and a bustle." "How do you know I haven't?

  Gail Carriger

  Baby, Mean, Thinking

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• As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.

  Lily Rabe

  Running, Real, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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