Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated… — 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
