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Camille Paglia

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Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.


— Camille Paglia


#art

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.


— Camille Paglia


#art

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.


— Camille Paglia


#attracts #being #i #i do #live

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?


— Camille Paglia


#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

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


— Camille Paglia


#dominant #men #prove #sex #sorts

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


— Camille Paglia


#civilization #female #grass #had #hands

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.


— Camille Paglia


#art #assault #feminism #imagination #moment

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


— Camille Paglia


#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

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


#against #flux #freezes #giving #halts

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.


— Camille Paglia


#content #craving #earth #envy #exiles






About Camille Paglia






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For over a decade Paglia was the partner of artist Alison Maddex. Clive James noted that Paglia tends to focus on American works as it moves from Shakespeare forward through time with Yeats following Coleridge as the last European discussed but emphasized her range of sympathy and her ability to juxtapose and unite distinct art forms in her analysis.

She is known as a critic of American feminism and is also strongly critical of the influence of French writers such as Jacques Lacan Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Paglia has celebrated Madonna and taken radical libertarian positions on controversial social issues such as abortion homosexuality and drug use. She wrote Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) a best-selling work of literary criticism among other books and essays.

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