Quotes with femme

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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.

  Source: 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.

  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:

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

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