Quotes by Camille Paglia

25 quotes by Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia - american author

Was born on 02 apr 1947.

Origin country: United States

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about woman, myth, sex, imagination, art, magic, nature, moment

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Quote by Camille Paglia about man

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about country, culture, knowledge, americans, public, life

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have...

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about culture, objects, talking, history

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about nature, beauty, limits, objects

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If...

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Quote by Camille Paglia about man, identity, mother

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Quote by Camille Paglia about opinion, help, americans, talent

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about history, greatness, force, beauty, order, change, man

If civilization had been left in female hands we would...

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

Quote by Camille Paglia about civilization

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about music, rocks, reality, sex, being

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about politics, career, sex, history, woman

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog...

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

Quote by Camille Paglia about 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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about sex, wanderer, envy, earth, man, nothing

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and...

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

Quote by Camille Paglia about religion, bodybuilding, mathematics, sport, science, art, magic, nature

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, ...

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Quote by Camille Paglia about excess

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...

Quote by Camille Paglia about liberty, democracy, thinking, state, use

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical...

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action, its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Quote by Camille Paglia about truth, action, imagination, nature, human imperfections

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's...

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

Quote by Camille Paglia about sex, seduction

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in...

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Quote by Camille Paglia about television, reality, books, human imperfections, life

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.

Quote by Camille Paglia about politics, art, magic, emotions, fear, value, pleasure, beauty

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