Quotes by Sontag, Susan

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us fro >>

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecolo >>

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that >>

Quotations about Pornography

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and gener >>

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in th >>

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary i >>

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being -- while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up. Normally we don't experience, at least don't want to experience, our sexual fulfillment as distinct from or opposed to our personal fulfillment. But perhaps in part they are distinct, whether we like it or not.

Sontag, Susan