Camille Paglia Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.”
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“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
-- Camille PagliaSource : Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage
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“The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.”
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“We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest”
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“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”
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“Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.”
-- Camille PagliaSource : Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage
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“High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.”
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“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
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“Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.”
-- Camille PagliaSource : Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage
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“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 women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.”
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“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 blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.”
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“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture”
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“Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones”
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“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 its personae.”
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“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, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
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“Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.”
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“Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.”
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“When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.”
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“My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.”
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“They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.”
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“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.”
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“Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.”
-- Camille PagliaSource : Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.62, Vintage
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“Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.”
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“Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.”
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“The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art”
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“Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!”
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“Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.”
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“[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.”
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“The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.”
-- Camille Paglia
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