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Parenting Quotes by Camille Paglia

16 Parenting quotes by Camille Paglia

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Camile Paglia’s commentary frequently challenges conventions, and these sixteen parenting reflections do the same. She brings her cultural‑savvy lens to the family sphere, offering sharp, sometimes provocative takes on how we raise the next generation.

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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college…

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

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

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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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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to…

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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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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at…

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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the…

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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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We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this…

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Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas…

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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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“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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“Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future…

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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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