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There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.
— Camille Paglia
Before feminism was, Paglia was!
— Camille Paglia
The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.
— Camille Paglia
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
— Camille Paglia
[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
— Camille Paglia
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
— Camille Paglia
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
— Camille Paglia
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.
— Camille Paglia
Modernization means Westernization.
— Camille Paglia
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
— Camille Paglia
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
— Camille Paglia
Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
— Camille Paglia
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
— Camille Paglia
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
— Camille Paglia
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
— Camille Paglia
Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
— Camille Paglia
Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope
— Camille Paglia
Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?
— Camille Paglia
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.
— Camille Paglia
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
— Camille Paglia
Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
— Camille Paglia
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
— Camille Paglia
Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.
— Camille Paglia
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.
— Camille Paglia
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
— Camille Paglia
Mind is a captive of the body.
— Camille Paglia
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
— Camille Paglia
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.
— Wendy Kaminer
I am a very reclusive, private person.
— Camille Paglia
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
— Camille Paglia
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.
— Camille Paglia
At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts.
— Camille Paglia
My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
— Camille Paglia
I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
— Camille Paglia
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
— Camille Paglia
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
— Camille Paglia
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
— Camille Paglia
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
— Camille Paglia
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.
— Camille Paglia
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
— Camille Paglia
Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.
— Camille Paglia
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
— Camille Paglia
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
— Camille Paglia
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
— Camille Paglia
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
— Camille Paglia
Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
— Camille Paglia
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
— Camille Paglia
Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.
— Camille Paglia
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
— Camille Paglia
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.
— Camille Paglia
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?
— Camille Paglia
Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.
— Camille Paglia
The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
— Camille Paglia
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
— Camille Paglia
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
— Camille Paglia
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.
— Camille Paglia
My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.
— Camille Paglia
When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
— Camille Paglia
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
— Camille Paglia
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
— Camille Paglia
Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.
— Camille Paglia
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.
— Camille Paglia
The Devil is a woman.
— Camille Paglia
The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.?
— Camille Paglia
The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.
— Camille Paglia
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
— Camille Paglia
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
— Camille Paglia
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
— Camille Paglia
We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.
— Camille Paglia
It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.
— Camille Paglia
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
— Camille Paglia
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
— Camille Paglia
I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
— Camille Paglia
Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.
— Camille Paglia
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
— Camille Paglia
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
— Camille Paglia
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
— Camille Paglia
Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.
— Camille Paglia
It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
— Camille Paglia
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
— Camille Paglia
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
— Camille Paglia
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
— Camille Paglia
If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.
— Camille Paglia
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
— Camille Paglia
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
— Camille Paglia
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
— Camille Paglia