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Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from

Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

Camille Paglia
Book, Writing, Sisterhood
Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

Camille Paglia
Writing, Thinking, Years
Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia
Writing, School, Skills
"Warrior for the word". Interview with Kerry Lauerman, www.salon.com. April 07, 2005.

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.

Camille Paglia
Writing, Ideas, Hands
"Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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