Camille Paglia Quotes

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of s*x, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them.

  Camille Paglia

• We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. S*x, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

  Camille Paglia

• Woman is the dominant s*x. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.

  Camille Paglia

• You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of s*x comes from the danger of s*x. You can be overpowered.

  Camille Paglia

• Leaving s*x to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  Camille Paglia

• My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm — as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, p*rnography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

  Camille Paglia

• P*rnography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

  Camille Paglia

• 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!

  Camille Paglia

• 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.

  Camille Paglia

• Like Picasso. Because he was mean to his girlfriend, he was not a great artist?

  Camille Paglia

• I don’t remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.

  Camille Paglia

• 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.

  Camille Paglia

• Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

  Camille Paglia

• The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

  Camille Paglia

• Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

  Camille Paglia

• When anything goes, it’s women who lose.

  Camille Paglia

• 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.

  Camille Paglia

• Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

  Camille Paglia

• Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

  Camille Paglia

• 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.

  Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia (103)

Birth:	2nd April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Critic, Professor

About

Camille Paglia was born in Endicott, New York. She is an American author, cultural critic and professor. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson and a collection of essays, Sex, Art, and American Culture. Her most recent book is 2012's Glittering Images. She is a critic of American feminism and of post-structuralist theory as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of U.S. social culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.

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