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Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.

— Camille Paglia Vamps and Tramps (1994)

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Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening.

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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

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Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion.

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