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"34 Camille Paglia Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 April 1947 | Academic | Critic |

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Congress Guinea Healthcare Keep
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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.

America Behavior Capitalist Career
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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.

Against Beauty Flux Giving
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Aroused Attracts Being Live
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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.

Envy Content Craving Earth
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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.

Against Back Falls Define
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Hands Female Left Grass
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Attention Dominant Men Prove
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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.

Abstraction Beauty Believe Change
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Deep May Men Mentally
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Dog Feminists Sex Leaving
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Because Destroyed Excess Generation
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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.

Accept Danger Fact Part
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Actually Books Closer Human
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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.

After Dead Enemies Nasty
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Sport Nature Science Art
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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!

Alive Culture History Objects
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
Art Kills Creativity Rule
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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?

Elite Past Greedy Late
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Become Man Must Simply
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Boy Child Defend Father
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Manhood Sensitivity
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

Because Getting Girl Issue
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Believe Least Body Role
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I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
Guess Just Natural Warrior
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I am a very reclusive, private person.

Person Private Reclusive Very
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

About Issue Balancing Choices
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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Elitist Feminism Goals Life
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Art Center Public Era
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Better Blogs Read Words
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Tour Dies Junior Years
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Raised Great Nature Roman
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Ambition Beauty Woman Problem
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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

Along Like Get Problem
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Camille Paglia Quotes & Sayings