Body Quotes by Camille Paglia

16 Body quotes by Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia tackles the body from many angles—art, biology, culture—within 16 sharp statements. Her voice, unapologetically provocative, invites you to reconsider how the physical self shapes and is shaped by society.

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Mind is a captive of the body.

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Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

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The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as…

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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…

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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more…

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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should…

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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that…

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Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its…

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The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with…

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Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the…

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Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And…

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The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated…

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In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us,…

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Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on…

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