Camille Paglia Quotes
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
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I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them.
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Feminists had an astoundingly naive view of the mutual exclusiveness of sex and aggression, which, Freud demonstrates, are fused in the amoral unconscious, as revealed to us through dreams. That rape is simply what used to be called 'unbridled lust,' like gluttony a sin of insufficient self-restraint, seems to be beyond the feminist ken.
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I think intellectuals should be fascinated by my rise, what it reveals about the time. My critics are irrelevant, though. It tells how much I'm getting to them by how vitriolic they are. They refuse to deal with the ideas. But reviews don't reflect anything; the books are selling. A friend told me, 'The attacks make you.'
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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, 'Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex.' This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
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In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
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It’s these guys in the Ivy League schools who get used to obeying women. They’re sedentary guys. It’s ironic that you’re getting the biggest bitching about men from the schools where the men are just eunuchs and bookworms.
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Mind is a captive of the body.
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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
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Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
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The Fairie Queene makes cinema out of the west's primary principle: to see is to know; to know is to control. The Spenserian eye cuts, wounds, rapes.
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Wearisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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The real butches are straight … dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.
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The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.
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Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.