Best Camille Paglia Quotes
- Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. Culture
- Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Age
- Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. Dog
- We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.… All
- Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and… All
- You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. Accept
- American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than… American
- Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. All
- Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male… Alleyway
- Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing. Best
- The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines. Definitions
- Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature. Duty
- Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. Absolve
- My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the… Advice
- Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that… Body
- The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Athens
- My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use,… Abortion
- What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge… Conspiracy
- The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. Body
- The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. Crete
- Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself. Abyss
- In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. Abyss
- Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse… Aesthete
- Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It… Abstraction
- I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without… Aids
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