Camille Paglia
American academic and social critic
Lived from: 1947 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 2 april 1947
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The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)― Camille Paglia -
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
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.
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
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We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de siècle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.
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We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
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Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)― Camille Paglia -
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)― Camille Paglia -
What troubles me about the hostile workplace category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)― Camille Paglia
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