Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia Copy Share
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
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.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
