"Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the……" — Camille Paglia
"Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women."
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205 Quotes by Camille Paglia
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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating…
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Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other…
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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold…
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to…
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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission…
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A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy…
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