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title: "2 Charisma Quotes By Camille Paglia"
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> [RIHANNA IS TODAY'S MOST FASCINATING PERFORMER, A MYSTERIOUS AMALGAM OF AMIABLE WARMTH AND GLITTERING CHARISMA. WITH HER KEEN CREATIVE EYE FOR LINE AND COLOR, SHE HAS BECOME A FASHION ICON, LIKE AUDREY HEPBURN. YET SHE IS A TEMPESTUOUS WILD CHILD…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/rihanna-is-today-s-most-fascinating-performer-a-mysterious-amalgam-of/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5c/camille-paglia-652_age_rihanna-is-today-s-most-fascinating-perf_1725925.jpg)

> [Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/charisma-is-the-numinous-aura-around-a-narcissistic-personality-it/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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## Other authors on Charisma

- [Susan C. Young 44 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charisma/susan-c-young/)

## More by Camille Paglia

> [A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/a-lesser-complaint-hair-extensions-there-are-moments-on-all-my/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/i-cannot-be-convinced-that-great-artists-are-moralists-art-is-first/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/as-a-registered-democrat-i-am-praying-for-a-credible-presidential/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/once-you-have-become-the-centre-of-a-conflict-in-a-complex/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/i-believe-that-government-should-confine-itself-to-the-public-realm/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/i-m-a-professor-of-media-studies-as-well-as-humanities-and-i-m-an/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/my-stress-on-the-truth-in-sexual-stereotypes-and-on-the-biologic/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/are-we-like-late-rome-infatuated-with-past-glories-ruled-by-a/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/effeminate-men-have-suffered-a-bad-press-the-world-over/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/in-the-theory-of-gender-i-began-from-zero-there-is-no-masculine-power/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/i-respect-the-astute-and-rigorously-unsentimental-david-horowitz-as/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/the-followers-of-derrida-are-pathetic-snuffling-in-french-pockets-for/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/gay-men-are-guardians-of-the-masculine-impulse-to-have-anonymous-sex/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/lesbian-feminists-for-all-their-ideals-of-sisterhood-and-solidarity/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/there-is-no-true-expertise-in-the-humanities-without-knowing-all-of/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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