“I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties…. Thirty years later, we’re still stuck with the [“nice” girl].”
Camille Paglia
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“You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.”
Camille Paglia
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“We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.”
Camille Paglia
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“I’m for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.”
Camille Paglia
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“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passé abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
Camille Paglia
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“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”
Camille Paglia
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“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
Camille Paglia
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“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes themelting flux of nature.”
Camille Paglia
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“Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!”
Camille Paglia
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“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
Camille Paglia
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“Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle.”
Camille Paglia
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“When anything goes, it’s women who lose.”
Camille Paglia
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