Quote

The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.

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
Antidote
Images
Magic
Words

More quotes by Camille Paglia

Image
government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.
Camille Paglia
Image
Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.
Camille Paglia
Image
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
Camille Paglia
Image
Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.
Camille Paglia
Image
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Camille Paglia
Image
Mind is a captive of the body.
Camille Paglia
Image
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
Camille Paglia
Image
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Camille Paglia
Image
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia
Image
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
Camille Paglia
Image
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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 are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.
Camille Paglia
Image
I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
Camille Paglia
Image
Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.
Camille Paglia
Image
Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?
Camille Paglia
Image
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia
Image
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia
Image
Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.
Camille Paglia
Image
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