When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with… — 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
Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on… — 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 Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image