Camille Paglia Quotes
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Quotes to Explore
-
Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
-
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
-
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
-
A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
-
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
-
The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
-
I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
-
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
-
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
-
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
-
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
-
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
-
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
-
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
-
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
-
A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
-
I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
-
As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
-
I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.
-
With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.
-
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
-
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
-
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
-
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
