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Mother Quotes by Camille Paglia

14 Mother quotes by Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia’s musings on motherhood cut through conventional narratives, offering a sharp, often contrarian view of maternal roles. In fourteen concise statements she fuses cultural analysis with personal observation, challenging readers to rethink assumptions.

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Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

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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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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed…

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Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.

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Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and…

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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot…

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All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out…

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Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating…

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[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious…

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Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart…

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“Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories…

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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus…

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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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