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Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: April 2, 1947 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Camille Paglia Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag |
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! Camille Paglia Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. Camille Paglia Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. Camille Paglia I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. Camille Paglia If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. Camille Paglia 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 lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. Camille Paglia It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. Camille Paglia Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. Camille Paglia Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. Camille Paglia Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Camille Paglia My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. Camille Paglia 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, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. Camille Paglia Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. Camille Paglia Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. Camille Paglia Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. Camille Paglia Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. Camille Paglia The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. Camille Paglia The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. Camille Paglia There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. Camille Paglia Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. Camille Paglia When anything goes, it's women who lose. Camille Paglia Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. Camille Paglia You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. Camille Paglia |
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