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Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.
Camille Paglia
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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
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Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
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Feminism
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[On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.
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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
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There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.
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Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.
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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
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The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.
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I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.
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There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.
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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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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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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.
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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.
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