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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#civilization #female #grass #had #hands

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. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#against #flux #freezes #giving #halts

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#part #pursuit #seduction #sexuality #sizzle

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#female #jack #mozart

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#audience #catchy #concerts #depth #effects

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#comes #danger #fact #part #sex

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #attributed #been #bill #changes

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#built #had #happening #i #lost

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#change #citizen #class #immortal #only

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions