"The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve."

-- Camille Paglia

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“Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.”
“We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.”
“We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.”
“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”
“To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2008). “Fallen”, p.291, Spectra
“The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.”
“We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?”
“I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.”

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