subversive quotes

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

- Erica ne  e Mann Jong
  'The  Artist  as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

Whatever isfunny issubversive, every joke isultimatelya custard pie† A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack uponmorality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'The  Art of Donald McGill'.