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Camille Paglia is an American academic, cultural critic, and author known for her controversial views on a variety of cultural and social issues. Born on April 2, 1947, she has taught at several universities and has written numerous books and articles on topics such as art, literature, and gender studies.

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“Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.”

Mean Mother Jesus Recalls Rude Coldness

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”

Mother Born Son Baby Glasses Cease Combat Jars Mother And Son

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.”

Men May Seems Mother Realizing Commitment Unconscious Ambivalence

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.”

Has Beens Mother Moral Blood Forgotten Feminist Goddess Blades Ambivalence Great Mother

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.”

Mother Father Jesus Born Female Inspired Males Opening Chains Adulthood Being A Mother Athena Odyssey

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.”

Men Mother Break Female Every Man Territory Harbors

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.”

Men Mother Jesus Christ Boys Written Shadow Jesus Christ Goddess Womb Tissues

Author:Camille Paglia

“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.”

Heart Play Mother Social Walks Creation Emotional Son Illusion Males Mastery Mother And Son

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.”

Men Mother Common Son Relation Primaries Mother And Son

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.”

Ifs Men Doe Mother Fall Identity Mom Every Man Fall Back

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“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.”

Running Mother Liberty Boys Wife Seasons Packs Adolescence Teenage Primal Hormones Exhilarating Horde

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.”

Men Mother Sex Emotion Duty Strive Mother Nature

Author:Camille Paglia

“Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.”

Government Mother Father Demand Behave Liberalism Tyrants

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

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Born: April 2, 1947
Known for: Teacher
Quotes: 395

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Sex, Art, and American Culture: EssaysRelated source material

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, FeminismRelated source material

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily DickinsonRelated source material

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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best PoemsRelated source material

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