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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

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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'...

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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual wor...

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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity ...

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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less ...

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The only road to freedom is self-education in art. Art is not a luxury for any advancedcivilization;...

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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind ...

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...

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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forc...

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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my s...

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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the u...

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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a...

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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay h...

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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered reg...

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We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

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A woman simply is, but a man must become.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern d...

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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...

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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is ...

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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his econo...

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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...

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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherd...

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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...

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When anything goes, it's women who lose.

If sexual physiology provides the pattern for our experience of the world, what is woman's basic met...

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects, but our eyes are slow and partial. Nature ...

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed'...

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in ...

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now ther...

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove...

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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....

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Camille Paglia

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Born: 1947-04-02

Died: N/A

Camille Paglia (born 2 April 1947) is an American author, scholar, feminist and critic, best known for writing Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a survey of Western art and literature from earliest recorded history to the 20th Century.More