Camille Paglia Quotes
Most popular Camille Paglia Quotes

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones ... run in packs like the primal horde.

The comedian has to get a laugh from the audience, just the way a prostitute has to get an orgasm from the client.

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

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their "evil" look at such times is no human projection.