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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
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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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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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
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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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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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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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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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