Helen Lawrenson Quotes

Most of today’s film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair.

As soon as an American man loves a girl he wants to marry her. This is not only a blunder but it is rather absurd. It is so typical of American men, always wanting to do the noble thing.

You have to go back to the Children’s Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women’s Liberation Movement.

Most of today’s film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .

These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

There is nothing that impairs a man’s sexual performance quicker than any suggestion that he’s not doing it right (‘Not there, you idiot!’).

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.