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
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to… — 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
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female… — 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
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. — 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
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal,… — 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
I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in… — 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
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
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
