"Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is
 hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and
 conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it...Everyone born into
 capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due."
                      [Camille Paglia]
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"Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!"
                    [Camille Paglia]
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"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass
 media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their
 leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and
 no impact whatever on public policy."
                       [Camille Paglia]
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"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.
 Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to
 dress, behavior, career, and sexual orietation."
                   [Camille Paglia]
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"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of
 the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution,
 pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend
 as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."
                      [Camille Paglia]
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"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men
 but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual
 channel between nature and culture."
                    [Camille Paglia]
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"There is no female Mozart because
 there is no female Jack the Ripper."
       [Camille Paglia]
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"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action;
 its violations are a protest against the violations of our
 freedom by nature."
               [Camille Paglia]
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"We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual
 relationships themselves must not be policed.  Sex, like the city
 streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes."
                 [Camille Paglia]
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"Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian,
 toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners
 to conceal their record of ruthless, beaverlike tunneling to the top."
                    [Camille Paglia]
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"If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of
 sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It
 attracts women. It doesn't repel them."
                  [Camille Paglia]
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"We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility
 and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The
 feminist of the fin de sicle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot
 confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way."
                         [Camille Paglia]
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"The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's
 egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical
 as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates;
 egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens."
                    [Camille Paglia]
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"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 cliché. 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."
                         [Camille Paglia]
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"Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating
 ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode.
 Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still
 excerising control over their lives."
                         [Camille Paglia]
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"Homosexuality is not "normal." On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm;
 therein rests its eternally revolutionary character. Note I do not call it a
 challenge to the *idea* of the norm. Queer theorists-that wizened crew of
 flimflamming free-loaders-have tried to take the poststructuralist tack of
 claiming that there is no norm, since everything is relative and contingent.
 This is the kind of silly bind that word-obsessed people get into when they
 are deaf, dumb, and blind to the outside world. Nature exists, whether
 academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single, relentless
 rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction.
 Penis fits vagina: no fancy linguistic game-playing can change that basic
 fact. However, my libertarian view, here as in regard to abortion, is that
 we have not only the right, but the obligation to defy nature's tyranny. The
 highest human identity consists precisely in such assertions of freedom
 against material limitation."
                       [Camile Paglia]
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"The feminist obsession with rape as a symbol of male-female relations
 is irrational and delusional. From the perspective of the future, this
 period in America will look like a reign of mass psychosis, like that
 of the Salem witch trials,"
            [Camille Paglia, Vamps & Tramps, p. 24.]
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"It's courses in military history, not women's studies,
 that ambitious young women urgently need in college."
                [Camille Paglia]
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"If civilization had been left in female hands
 we would still beliving in grass huts."
             [Camille Paglia]
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"Teetotalers may be the spine of the nation,
 but drinkers are its heart and balls."
           [Camille Paglia]
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"Male urination really *is* a kind of accomplishment, an arc of
 transcendence. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on."
                  [Camille Paglia]
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