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Quote by Camille Paglia

“The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.”

Quote by Camille Paglia

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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. more

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“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.”

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“Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.”

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Book:Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

Source: Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

“My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.”

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Book:Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

Source: Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

“Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.”

Children Company Adults Dislike

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“The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.”

Genius Males Despite Misogyny Inseparable Orientation Athens

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.”

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Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.”

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Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.”

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

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

“The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.”

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

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