Camille Paglia
American academic and social critic
Lived from: 1947 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 2 april 1947
Quotes 61 till 80 of 154.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006)― Camille Paglia -
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia -
Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
As quoted in The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is (2007)― Camille Paglia -
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)― Camille Paglia -
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia -
Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia -
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia -
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
Omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)― Camille Paglia -
One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia
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