Camille Paglia Quotes About Genius
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.
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Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.
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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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