Love Quotes by Camille Paglia

15 Love quotes by Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia tackles love with a blend of academic rigor and bold cultural critique. In these 15 quotations, she challenges conventions while honoring the complexity of human desire.

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Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

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Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

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It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.

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“Love is imploring humanity: Set down your burden of doubt; in perfect faith there is neither fear nor struggle.”

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Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

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We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

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“Taking the guest’s hand, Love asks, “Who made the eyes but I?” (11–12). This brilliant sally asserts that man cannot look away…

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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous…

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“Love is a crowded theater, for as Harold Bloom remarks, “We can never embrace (sexually or otherwise) a single person, but embrace…

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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal…

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The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.…

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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library,…

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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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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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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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