Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 15
“The instant myth of Amy Fisher turned feminist dogma on on is head: as in the hit films Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, woman rules and destroys. The femme fatale is for real.”
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 134
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Original: La mente umana è sempre stata il mezzo più affascinante, ma a volte, per istinto, un bel corpo rimane il più fatale strumento di attrazione.
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What rules the World? (also known by The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World) reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919).
Context: They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers than he;
But a mighty power and stronger,
Man from his throne hath hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
Variant: It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Source: A Room of One's Own
“Power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually, is often fatal to success.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)
Context: Sons and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn...
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