|
be6fc40
|
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 then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
|
|
democrat
sex
criticism
responsibility
america
inspirational
republican
victim
liberal
libertarian
art
culture
trauma
|
Camille Paglia |
|
24c5514
|
Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
b79e37f
|
Love is a crowded theater, for as Harold Bloom remarks, "We can never embrace (sexually or otherwise) a single person, but embrace the whole of her or his family romance."
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
5acc9d7
|
The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
3bb765d
|
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
1f4b04c
|
The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
01ebe48
|
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
87e9744
|
The Devil is a woman.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
bad745c
|
In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
7371827
|
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
7b7a18d
|
Mind is a captive of the body.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
9eb2579
|
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
7b20a26
|
The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
1253e8f
|
Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
4622b1d
|
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
ab61766
|
If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
600a3b2
|
Capitalism is an art form.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
e0877c9
|
Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
427b4bf
|
Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
2ba2999
|
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
356f872
|
I subscribe to Jung's theory of synchronicity.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
a412068
|
Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
93bf737
|
Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
972bad4
|
Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
53450dd
|
The Dionysian is no picnic.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
12983b8
|
When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
be7052c
|
Incompetent amateurs have given prostitution a bad name.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
66985b5
|
I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
bad9b9c
|
T]here's a lot to be said for celibacy, for the concentration of your mental and physical energy.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
771f863
|
Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
9b8c223
|
Feminism's claim that it discovered rape is simply false.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
1207d1c
|
The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
7d78f71
|
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
340f787
|
The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
ce71925
|
The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
7cc7ac4
|
Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
a954e86
|
Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
29b4606
|
Modernization means Westernization.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
ab5ea59
|
Women's studies is institutionalized sexism.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
f465209
|
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
d6b1f55
|
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
af8bd53
|
It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |
|
dd8595e
|
The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.
|
|
|
Camille Paglia |