"Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels……" — Camille Paglia
"Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence."
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205 Quotes by Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia has 205 quotes on this site.
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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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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating…
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Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other…
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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold…
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to…
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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission…
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A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy…
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