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Quotes from Vamps and Tramps — Camille Paglia

born 1947 United States

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It is in the best interests of the human race, and of women themselves, for men to be strong.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

The dishonesty and speciousness of the feminist rape analysis are demonstrated by its failure to explore, or even mention, man-on-man sex crimes.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.

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Conflict cannot be avoided, but perhaps it can be confined to a mental theater.

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It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

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Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

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When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

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With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.

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Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.

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The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.

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Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

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Cock teasing is a universal reality. It is part of women’s merciless testing and cold-eyed comparison shopping for potential mates. Men will do anything to win the favor of women.

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The real butches are straight … dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

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The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Camille Paglia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.