"In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/femaleâ€¦In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness"

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Source : Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.19, Springer

Laura Mulvey

#Strong Quotes #Impact Quotes #Males Quotes

“I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.”
“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.”

Source : Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
“Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.”
“...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.”
“All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.”
“If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.”
“Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.”

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