Camille Paglia quotes - page 3

Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women. (Camille Paglia)
All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms. View quote
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Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. View quote
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Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. View quote
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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs. View quote
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The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry. View quote
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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university. View quote
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. View quote
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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over. View quote
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free. View quote
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Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight. (Camille Paglia)
Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time. View quote
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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. View quote
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Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature. View quote
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We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. View quote
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The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve. View quote
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. View quote
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Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. View quote
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Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is. View quote
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Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. View quote
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The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger. (Camille Paglia)
The Dionysian is no picnic. View quote
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. View quote
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Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism. View quote
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another. View quote
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