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Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Capitalism is an art form.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Feminism’s claim that it discovered rape is simply false.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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.
Stephen K. Sanderson (2001)
Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Mind is a captive of the body.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
American feminism’s nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Women have to understand this correctly and they'll protect themselves better. If a real rape occurs, it's got to go to the police.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Sexual Personae seeks to demonstrate the unity and continuity of western culture — something that has inspired little belief since the period before World War I.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
We can’t consider that women have kinky tastes, can we? No, because women are naturally benevolent and nurturing, aren’t they? Everything is so damn Mary Poppins and sanitized.