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Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
Camille Paglia
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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
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Camille Anna Paglia
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Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.
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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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Capitalism is an art form.
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Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
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Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
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American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
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I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of the realm of sex. The lesbian feminists tried to take control of female sexuality away from men - but the prostitute was doing that all along.
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.
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If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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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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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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