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Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

— Camille Paglia The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is (2007)

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Source: As quoted in The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is (2007) edited by Jessie Shiers, p. 167 ISBN 9781599212135
Work: The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is, 2007
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