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Against Quotes by Camille Paglia
- Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
- The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death…
- Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
- Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
- Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination,…
- The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible…
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