Camille Paglia Quotes

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia

Sex, Leaving, Vacation

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.
Camille Paglia

Women, Living, Capitalism

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

Mom, Mother, Her

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

Men, Sex, Woman

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

Women, Rock, Sex

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

Women, Men, Envy

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia

Past, Greedy, Late

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

Beauty, Nature, Giving

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

Women, History, Freedom

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

After, Said, Dead

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Why, Become, Poor

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia

Power, Freedom, Thought

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
Camille Paglia

Hallmark, Perpetual

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

Nature, Art, Moment

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia

Living, Left, Hands

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia

Religion, Nature, Art

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
Camille Paglia

Words, Read, Outside

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia

Manhood, Coerced

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia

Sexuality, Essence, Pursuit

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
Camille Paglia

Keep, Plan, Rest

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
Camille Paglia

Done, Damage, Repair

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Camille Paglia

Female, Mozart, Jack

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
Camille Paglia

I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
Camille Paglia

Warrior, Natural, Guess

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
Camille Paglia

Angry, Blame, Win

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 2, 1947

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