Camille Paglia quotes - page 7

In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance. (Camille Paglia)
I don't want special protection for gays or transgender. I'm saying there should be protections for all dissident behavior and speech. Dissidents of every kind. View quote
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. View quote
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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel. View quote
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. View quote
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! View quote
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. View quote
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Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing. View quote
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. View quote
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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! View quote
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. (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. View quote
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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 channels between nature and culture. View quote
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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. View quote
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Men chase by night those they will not greet by day. View quote
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. View quote
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. View quote
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When anything goes, it's women who lose. View quote
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. View quote
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. View quote
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. View quote
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