Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated. Camille Paglia More Quotes by Camille Paglia More Quotes From Camille Paglia 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 stress sex art 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 princess girl white 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! Camille Paglia voice talking history We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. Camille Paglia husband responsibility father Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae. Camille Paglia mental-health bipolar self When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. Camille Paglia feminist brother trouble I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today. Camille Paglia gay girl hate In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits. Camille Paglia body-weight fetus eye The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Camille Paglia athens males genius We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. Camille Paglia psychics these-days stars We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. Camille Paglia women cities sex What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt. Camille Paglia scratches skins loss Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. Camille Paglia identity order sex My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. Camille Paglia liberalism excess generations Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. Camille Paglia eye sex art There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers. Camille Paglia female genius I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of the realm of sex. The lesbian feminists tried to take control of female sexuality away from men - but the prostitute was doing that all along. Camille Paglia fate men sex Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome. Camille Paglia males female overcoming Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women. Camille Paglia strong-women daddy running Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk. Camille Paglia book people art
