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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
Marina Warner
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Marina Warner -
The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.
Marina Warner -
One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.
Marina Warner -
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
Marina Warner -
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.
Marina Warner -
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
Marina Warner