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Camille Paglia Inspirational Quotes (205)

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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
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Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.
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Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.
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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
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Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.
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Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.
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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.
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[On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.
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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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