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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist


Camille Paglia

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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
CAMILLE PAGLIA Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist
CAMILLE PAGLIA What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your sk...
MARK TWAIN What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your sk...
MARK TWAIN There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide...
MORTIMER CAPLAN There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
MORTIMER CAPLIN The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
MARK TWAIN Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference ...
BETTY ROLLIN Mr. Kohl is a family friend. He would watch the dog when they went on vacation.
HAYLEY GREENBERG Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference ...
BETTY ROLLIN Picasso, he should have been a taxidermist!“I’ve done your dog. It’s got nine eyes down the si...
EDDIE IZZARD Sex is not just about going in or letting in, it is really about welcoming your dearly beloved into ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Criticizing these reporters is like booing at the special olympics.
TRIUMPH THE INSULT DOG I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here f...
LARRY ANDERSON Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks....
JOSH STERN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK The power to defeat sexual temptations in life is by learning to transmute your sexual urges into ot...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know whether your spouse is enjoying sex with you or not is by learning to discern the ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to activate your inactive sex life is by learning to use the magical tool called pornograp...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD The power to never get bored of sex is by learning to become adventurous in the art.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to defeat sexual temptation in life is by learning to distance yourself from the seducer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become good in bed is by learning to defeat your sexual instinct.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Making Love is different form having Sex. While the former recharges you with orgasmic experience, t...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To attach to a goal is to mentally protect it because of a negative story running at the back of you...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Permitting your life to be taken over by another person is like letting the waiter eat your dinner.
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SOHEIR KHASHOGGI We scampered down the hillside with the dog, leaving our cars and everything.
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JAY LENO I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
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CAMILLE PAGLIA If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at s...
CAMILLE PAGLIA The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...
CAMILLE PAGLIA There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is t...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to des...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can wo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA When anything goes, it's women who lose.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking ru...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminis...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has bo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and inte...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie pro...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually r...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always ex...
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