->''"Oh cursed corset! If I could let it out, without indecent exposure."''
-->-- '''Samuel Beckett''', "All That Fall"

->'''Governor Swann''': I'm told it's the latest fashion in London.
->'''Elizabeth Swann''': Well, women in London must have learnt not to breathe!
-->-- ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''

->'''Carrie:''' "I'm glad I'm not old enough to wear corsets."\\
'''Laura:''' "Be glad while you can be. You'll have to soon enough."
--> --''[[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Little Town on the Prairie]]''

->''Early in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' comes the Lament of the Corset. What, you ask, is the Lament of the Corset? This is the scene in a period piece, from ''[[Film/Titanic1997 Titanic]]'' to ''Film/EverAfter'' to ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', that reminds us how cruelly constrained women have been by patriarchal expectations, how roped in and squeezed into society’s mold.''
-->--'''[[http://decentfilms.com/reviews/aliceinwonderland2010 Stephen D. Greydanus]]'''

->'''Ciel:''' That's it, you're going to kill me!\\
'''Sebastian:''' I doubt anyone's ever been killed by a corset, Master.
-->--''Manga/BlackButler''

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