19 Quotes by Camille Paglia about Men

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    Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

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    Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

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    When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

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    Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

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    Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

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    Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.

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    Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

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