Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive. Camille Paglia More Quotes by Camille Paglia More Quotes From Camille Paglia Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. Camille Paglia female body men My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport. Camille Paglia football sports war Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard! Camille Paglia clothes grandmother feminist The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words. Camille Paglia antidote magic Mind is a captive of the body. Camille Paglia captives body mind Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. Camille Paglia compassion real world The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry. Camille Paglia revenge sex art Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time. Camille Paglia our-time The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them. Camille Paglia errors years thinking The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. Camille Paglia creating style example Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. Camille Paglia black party exercise Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ? Camille Paglia block men moving Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ? Camille Paglia gay forever men In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives. Camille Paglia twenties intellectual years There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders. Camille Paglia ignorant judgment historical The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. Camille Paglia teens issues girl Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. Camille Paglia masculinity sensitivity men Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Camille Paglia sexuality pregnancy character Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. Camille Paglia biology psychics order A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul. Camille Paglia soul giving art
