Camille Paglia Quotes

• History shows that male homose*uality, which like pr*stitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

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• Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

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

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• 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.

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

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• Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

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• The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead is the nasty things I’ve said about them.

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• There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation ”alter” nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

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• 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.

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• Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ”evil” look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.

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• Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

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• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of s*x, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, po*nographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

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

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• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

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

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• The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.

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• 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.

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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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