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Female Quotes by Camille Paglia
- What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge…
- The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
- The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
- Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It…
- The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes…
- Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine…
- Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power…
- If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
- There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
- Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.…
- I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world…
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- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the… — Antonio Banderas
- I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body. — Javier Bardem
- Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I… — Roseanne Barr
- It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes… — Dave Barry
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she… — Simone de Beauvoir
- I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our… — Lake Bell
- Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They… — Monica Bellucci
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
- It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care… — Bjork
- Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by… — Bjork