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

Quote by Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia is an American academic, cultural critic, and author known for her controversial views on a variety of cultural and social issues. Born on April 2, 1947, she has taught at several universities and has written numerous books and articles on topics such as art, literature, and gender studies. more

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“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.”

Bits Pieces Buddhism Method Sacred Pockets Mature Followers Hinduism Pathetic Derrida

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.”

Tradition Western Deny Objectives

Author:Camille Paglia

“Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.”

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.”

Men Mother Jesus Christ Boys Written Shadow Jesus Christ Goddess Womb Tissues

Author:Camille Paglia

“Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.”

Age Violence Emotional Gender Command Old Age Territory Hormones Violence Against Women Midlife

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.”

Mind Shows Sexuality Pornography Poisoning Veneer

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.”

Knows Men World Careers Know How Discovery I Realized Handle Strongest

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.”

Sex Causes Differences Bases Stress Stereotype Controversy Sex Differences

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

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

“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.”

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

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

“The Devil is a woman.”

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

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