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Camille Paglia has 210 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 the materiality…
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Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood…
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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 light of…
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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 describe it…
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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism…
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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 the pleasures…
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The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the…
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The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts…
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Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let…
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall…
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I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because…
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the…
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We cant escape pain; we cant escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give…
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