Camille Paglia quotes - page 4

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS. (Camille Paglia)
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. View quote
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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. View quote
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees. View quote
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure. View quote
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. View quote
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms. View quote
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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism. View quote
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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of. View quote
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages. View quote
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Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes... protect yourselves. See trouble coming. (Camille Paglia)
Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed. View quote
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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood. View quote
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile. View quote
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The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind. View quote
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son. View quote
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind. View quote
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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. View quote
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I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology. View quote
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed. View quote
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. (Camille Paglia)
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture. View quote
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. View quote
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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. View quote
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage. View quote
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