Ifs Quotes by Camille Paglia

14 Ifs quotes by Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia’s “ifs” cut to the core with a scholarly edge. Though only 14 entries, they serve as a focused entry point for readers curious about her provocative take on culture and choice.

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I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

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If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.

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If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

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All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep…

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The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted…

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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned…

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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented…

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If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where…

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We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of…

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We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and…

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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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In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a…

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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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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.…

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Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

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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…

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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

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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…

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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that…

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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.…

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