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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
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Film Critic
Journalist
Literary Critic
Professor
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Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
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Sappho
Dickinson
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'
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The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
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What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.
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Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
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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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Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.
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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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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.
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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?
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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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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.
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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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Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
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Modernization means Westernization.
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
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government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.
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In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
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