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• I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  ― Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• orientation
• inseparable
• misogyny
• theatre
• talking
• despite

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