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1->''"Oh cursed corset! If I could let it out, without indecent exposure."''
2-->-- '''Samuel Beckett''', "All That Fall"
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4->'''Governor Swann''': I'm told it's the latest fashion in London.
5->'''Elizabeth Swann''': Well, women in London must have learnt not to breathe!
6-->-- ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''
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8->'''Carrie:''' "I'm glad I'm not old enough to wear corsets."\
9'''Laura:''' "Be glad while you can be. You'll have to soon enough."
10--> --''[[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Little Town on the Prairie]]''
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12->''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.''
13-->--'''[[http://decentfilms.com/reviews/aliceinwonderland2010 Stephen D. Greydanus]]'''
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15->'''Ciel:''' That's it, you're going to kill me!\
16'''Sebastian:''' I doubt anyone's ever been killed by a corset, Master.
17-->--''Manga/BlackButler''
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