"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."

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Source : Sexual Personae ch. 1 (1990)

Camille Paglia

#Hands Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Female Quotes

“Famous people are above the law,”
“I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.”
“The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.”
“My English is not very good-looking.”
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.”
“The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.”
“Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.”

Source : Song: Wonder Boy

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