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“These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!”

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John Brown, a prominent abolitionist, was born on May 9, 1800, and died on December 2, 1859. He is known for his extreme abolitionist actions and ideas, particularly for his planning of the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 to free slaves. more

“Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.”

Men Way Moments Culture Girl Forever Claims Victim Feminist Impressed Adolescence Prostitution Persona Conqueror Heroines Alphabet Outlaw Yale

Author:Camille Paglia

“Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.”

Men Culture Survival Female Tools Males Lust Factors Aggression Pagan Vastness Energizing

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.”

World Body Materials Source Authority Rising Ballet Glamour Commonplace Disdain Material World

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.”

Way Birth Miracle

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.”

Self Interest Cat Naked Immoral Projection Self Interest Breaking Rules

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.”

Men Art Philosophy Law Term Conflict Genre Capture Athletics High Art

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.”

Mean Mother Jesus Recalls Rude Coldness

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”

Mother Born Son Baby Glasses Cease Combat Jars Mother And Son

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

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