# Quote — Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow

> It kept astonishing him — how weak the prohibitions always turned to be, and how ready everyone was to claim the new ground, every inch of it. An automatic annexation. What was called, in children, self-extension, as they stockpiled each dawning power and freedom, without gratitude, without thought. And now: where were the hinderers, the wet blankets, where were the miseries, where were the police?

- Author: [Martin Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis.md)
- Book: [The Pregnant Widow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/the-pregnant-widow.md)
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> It was already obvious that every hard and demanding adaptation would be falling to the girls. Not to the boys — who were all like that anyway. The boys could just go on being boys. It was the girls who had to choose.

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> Pornographic sex is a kind of sex that can be described. Which told you something, he felt, about pornography, and about sex. During Keith's time, sex divorced itself from feeling. Pornography was the industrialization of that rift.

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> You know, it's not the rich who're really different from us. It's the beautiful.

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