Camille Paglia Quotes

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• Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

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  Children, Pain, Men

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

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  Defense, Construction, Artificial

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.1, Yale University Press

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• 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.

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  Sex, Women, Reality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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

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  Hands, Civilization, Female

  Sexual Personae ch. 1 (1990)

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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.

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  Sex, Men, Attention

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.62, Vintage

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• Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction...No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous...homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.

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  Gay, Ideas, Challenges

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• Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

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  Men, Sensitivity, Masculinity

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

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  Men, Masculinity, Elusive

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

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  Feminism, Pills, Birth Control

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage

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• We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

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  Husband, Father, Responsibility

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• Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.

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  Sex, Gay, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.21, 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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  Weakness, Aristocracy, World

  "How Capitalism Can Save Art" by Camille Paglia, www.wsj.com. October 05, 2012.

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• Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

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  Nature, Art, Giving

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

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  Inspirational, Hilarious, Men

  Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

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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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  Careers, Issues, Life And Death

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• Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

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  Self, Perfect, Personality

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?

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  Block, Moving, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

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  Stars, Power, Greatness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.

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  Men, Discovery, Careers

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.80, Vintage

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• Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

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  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

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  Men, Lust, Survival

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

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  Sex, Cutting, Feminism

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, p. 10, 1992.

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• Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

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  Book, Writing, Sisterhood

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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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.

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  Mother, Running, Teenage

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage

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• Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

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  Art, Sex, Eye

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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