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Free Women, Free Men

: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered tog

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“The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Imagination, Myth Creating

“Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Every idea in poetry is grounded in emotion. Every word is a palpation of the body. The multiplicity of interpretation surrounding a poem mirrors the stormy uncontrollability of emotion, where nature works her will.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry

“When the prestige of state and religion is low, men are free, but they find freedom intolerable and seek new ways to enslave themselves, through drugs or depression.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Freedom, Politcs, Infrastructure of Control, No Freedom

“Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Nature, What Are We?, Gaia, Quote of the Moment

“The body, for good or ill, has become a primary marker of identity in this transient society where the extended family and old community ties have broken down. Style is cyclic: all standards will eventually change. But that may not be soon enough for young people (increasingly male as well as female…”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Body Image, Bodies, Perception of Self

“The massive power of commercial media can only be countered by alternative images from world art and culture.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Art, Art and Commerce, Media, Imagery

“Forms of cultural expression have their own dynamic, whose evolution can never be fully foreseen.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Idea Expression, Thought as Evolution

“A bitter polarization of liberal and conservative has become so extreme and strident in both the Americas and Europe that it sometimes resembles mental illness, severed from the common sense realities of everyday life.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Polarization, Politcs, Left and Right, Quote of the Moment

“Barbra Streisand has never received due credit for her pioneering role in shattering female convention and laying the groundwork for second-wave feminism. Emerging from bohemian nightclubs where her campy patter and vintage costumes were shaped by gay male sensibility, Streisand embodied a scrappy n…”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

Tagged: Musicians, feminism, Barbra Streisand