Quotes with fatale

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• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

  Brian De Palma
  American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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• Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  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:

• relationships
• misogynist
• translated
• perfectly
• ancient
• eternal

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