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Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
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Endicott
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Camille Anna Paglia
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The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.
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Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
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There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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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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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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Capitalism is an art form.
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Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.
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Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
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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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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
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It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.
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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.
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Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
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Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.
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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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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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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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All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.
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