Quote

I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.

Camille Paglia

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
Essayist
Film Critic
Journalist
Literary Critic
Professor
Teacher
Writer
Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
Possible
Dues
Toll
Energy
Literally
Delusions
Women
Male
Tolls
Body
Aids
Energies
Without
Males
Seventies
Believe
Apart
Partly
Ravenous
Men
Gay
Shocking
Tore
World
West
Delusion
Unbalanced

More quotes by Camille Paglia

Image
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia
Image
There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.
Camille Paglia
Image
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
Camille Paglia
Image
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.
Camille Paglia
Image
Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.
Camille Paglia
Image
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.
Camille Paglia
Image
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
Camille Paglia
Image
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
Camille Paglia
Image
I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.
Camille Paglia
Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
Camille Paglia
Image
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
Camille Paglia
Image
Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
Camille Paglia
Image
When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.
Camille Paglia
Image
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Camille Paglia
Image
Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.
Camille Paglia
Image
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.
Camille Paglia
Image
I am a very reclusive, private person.
Camille Paglia
Image
Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
Camille Paglia
Image
Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
Camille Paglia
Image
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
Camille Paglia