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Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia

Birthname

Birthday April 2, 1947

Educated At Yale University

Political Parties Democratic Party

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Professor, Art Historian, Literary Critic, Writer, Journalist

Religion Atheism, Atheist

Total quotes (39)

This is all meaningless... sometimes it’s like, 'oh my God, the news', and then I pick up my book and suddenly I’m reading about ten thousand years ago again, and, wow, that gives you a perspective.

— Camille Paglia, What Camille Paglia Understands About the Trump Era

News Books Quote of the Moment

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Sex is not a tragedy, it's a comedy!

— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner's Legacy, Trump's Masculinity and Feminism's Sex Phobia

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Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.

— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Nature What Are We?Gaia Quote of the Moment

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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature.

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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All sacred spaces, pagan or Christian, should be honored, not because there is or is not a God but because these are quiet points of contact between the individual and the macrocosm.

— Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (Vintage Original)

Designing Space Scared The Religions after Religion Designing Quiet

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In a democracy, everyone, no matter how nonconformist or eccentric, should be free from harassment and abuse. But at the same time, no one deserves special rights, protections, or privileges on the basis of their eccentricity.

— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror

Individual Rights

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The massive power of commercial media can only be countered by alternative images from world art and culture.

— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Art Art and Commerce Media Imagery

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I know what real radicals look like — and they did not go on to graduate school.

— Camille Paglia, Crisis In The American Universities

Extremism Radicals Higher Education

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Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Don’t Let It All Through Repression What Stops Us From Going Crazy

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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.

— Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (Vintage Original)

Male Identity Teenage Wildlife Sexual Identity

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Forms of cultural expression have their own dynamic, whose evolution can never be fully foreseen.

— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Idea Expression Thought as Evolution

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I long ago stopped watching TV news and chat shows because of the tedium of their hackneyed polarized politics and smarmy personnel.

— Camille Paglia, Prominent Democrat Feminist Camille Paglia Says Hillary Clinton 'Exploits Feminism'

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When the prestige of state and religion is low, men are free, but they find freedom intolerable and seek new ways to enslave themselves, through drugs or depression.

— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Freedom Politcs Infrastructure of Control No Freedom

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The taboo on woman’s body is the taboo that always hovers over the place of magic.

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Taboo sexuality Female Body

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Every male projection is transient and must be anxiously, endlessly renewed.

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Men The Problem With A Being Man Male Issues Male Anxiety The Anxiety of Masculinity

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A bitter polarization of liberal and conservative has become so extreme and strident in both the Americas and Europe that it sometimes resembles mental illness, severed from the common sense realities of everyday life.

— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Polarization Politcs Left and Right Quote of the Moment

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Man is a fetishist. Without his fetish, woman will just gobble him up again.

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Fetishism sexuality

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To impose rigid sex codes devised for the genteel bourgeois office on the dynamic performing arts will inevitably limit rapport, spontaneity, improvisation and perhaps creativity itself.

— Camille Paglia, Movies, #MeToo and Modern Sexuality

Sexual Dynamics Art and Sex Me Too Gender Relations

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Yes! I believe in objectification. The human eye makes objects.

— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia cuts the malarkey: Women just need to toughen up

Objectification

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Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Every idea in poetry is grounded in emotion. Every word is a palpation of the body. The multiplicity of interpretation surrounding a poem mirrors the stormy uncontrollability of emotion, where nature works her will.

— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

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Major peaks of western culture have been accompanied by a high incidence of male homosexuality— in classical Athens and Renaissance Florence and London. Male concentration and projection are self-enhancing, leading to supreme achievements of Apollonian

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Homosexuality Male Aesthetics

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The female body’s unbearable hiddenness applies to all aspects of men’s dealings with women. What does it look like in there? Did she have an orgasm? Is it really my child? Who was my real father? Mystery shrouds woman’s sexuality.

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

The Secret of Secrecy Female Sexuality Female Allure Hidden

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The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Imagination Myth Creating

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Great art has often been made by bad people. So what? Expecting the artist to be a good person was a sentimental canard of Victorian moralism, rejected by the 'art for art’s sake' movement led by Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.

— Camille Paglia, #MeToo and Modern Sexuality

Where Art Comes From Complex Moral Portraits Aesthetics vs. Ethics

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Political correctness represents the fossilized institutionalization of once-vital revolutionary ideas, which have become mere rote formulas. It is repressively Stalinist, dependent on a labyrinthine, parasitic bureaucracy to enforce its empty dictates.

— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror

Political Correctness

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