"The more woman aims for personal identity and……" — Camille Paglia
"The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'"
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Camille Paglia
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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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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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