Camille Paglia Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.
When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus , a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.