Camille Paglia Short Quotes

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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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Incompetent amateurs have given prostitution a bad name.

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Feminism's claim that it discovered rape is simply false.

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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.

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The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.

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My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

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I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.

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If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.

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Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.

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Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

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Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

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

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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.

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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.

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Hollywood is the great thing that America has done and given to the world.

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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

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Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.

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If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

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I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

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It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

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The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

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