Camille Paglia Quotes
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
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I'm very interested in working with nonprofits, people in education, medicine, people who are doing things to improve the world and who don't have the money to come to Siegel+Gale for help.
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Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong,Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong.And when for once the wide world begins to praise her nameHer own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame.
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Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
