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Quotation by Camille Paglia
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"Alice in Muscle Land" Boston Globe (January 27, 1991)"Alice in Muscle Land" Boston Globe (Jan. 27, 1991)"Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's Pagan Queen" Penthouse (New York, March 1992)Harper's (New York, March 1991)"Homosexuality at the Fin de Siècle" Esquire (New York, Oct. 1991)Related Subjects
It is not menstrual blood per se which disturbs the imagination—unstanchable as that red flood may be—but rather the albumen in the blood, the uterine shreds, placental jellyfish of the female sea. This is the chthonian matrix from which we rose. We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, our site of biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
Camille Paglia (b. 1947), U.S. author, critic, educator. Sexual Personae, ch. 1 (1990).
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