All Camille Paglia Quotes
- Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. Cheapen
- Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces,… Analysis
- Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity… Achieved
- Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Character
- Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night… Apollonian
- Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Avert
- Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones Conspiracy
- Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. Biology
- The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness.… Art
- I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek… America
- A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul. Art
- Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of… Apollonian
- Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression… Aggression
- The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… Art
- 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. Over-concentration… All
- Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives… Claimed
- Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. Action
- There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be… Absorb
- If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male… Aroused
- When anything goes, it's women who lose. Anything Goes