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Conflict cannot be avoided, but perhaps it can be confined to a mental theater. (Camille Paglia)
When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide. View quote
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Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. View quote
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You have a stronger case if you give due respect to the other side. An abortion should be something that is wrestled with. View quote
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Pornography is art, sometimes harmonious, sometimes dissonant. Its glut and glitter are a Babylonian excess. View quote
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The book of Genesis is a male declaration of independence from the ancient mother-cults. Its challenge to nature, so sexist to modern ears, marks one of the crucial moments in western history. View quote
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The elevation of Foucault to guru status by American and British academics is a tale that belongs to the history of cults. View quote
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The dishonesty and speciousness of the feminist rape analysis are demonstrated by its failure to explore, or even mention, man-on-man sex crimes. View quote
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It is affluent, upper-middle class students who most spout the party line - as if the grisly hyperemotionalism of feminist jargon satisfies their hunger for meaningful experiences outside their eventless upbringing. In the absence of war, invent one. View quote
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Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. View quote
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What women have to realize is their own dominance as a sex. (Camille Paglia)
The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of culture. View quote
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Many things that erupt in rape or violence, or battery and so on, are happening when a woman is pushing that button of fear and dependency. View quote
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. View quote
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Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. View quote
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Feminism was always wrong to pretend that women could "have it all.” It is not male society but mother nature who lays the heaviest burden on woman. View quote
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I am militant on this. Words must remain free. View quote
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We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. View quote
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Everything great in western civilization has come from struggling against our origins. View quote
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Because boys lack a biological marker like menstruation, to be man is to be not female. View quote
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Films of the mating behavior of most other species - a staple of public television of America - demonstrate that the female chooses. (Camille Paglia)
Feminism was always wrong to pretend that women could "have it all.”. View quote
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. View quote
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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. View quote
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. View quote
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