Camille Paglia
American academic and social critic
Lived from: 1947 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 2 april 1947
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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
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Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
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Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
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Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia -
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
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Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical patriarchy their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.
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Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
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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 -
Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.
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Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
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For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
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Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia
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