Luigi Pirandello Quotes
Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."
Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Translated by Edward Storer, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922, p. 43.
Paglia was an anti-feminist. However, this is not a justification of rape. What she is saying is that given woman’s behavior pattern, men have to be very aggressive. She says that the male approach to socializing with females must take the FORM of rape—overcoming female feigned postures. Few agree with her, but she is the extreme opposite of the feminists in viewpoint. There are billions of men who have been successful with women who did not resort to rape or force in any way.
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre.". He was an Italian nationalist and supported Fascism in a moderate way, giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down for the Abyssinia Campaign. Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.
