Camille Paglia Quotes

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If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts. - Camille Paglia quote.
If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.
— Camille Paglia Sexual Personae

women civilization

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones ... run in packs like the primal horde. - Camille Paglia quote.
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones ... run in packs like the primal horde.
— Camille Paglia Esquire

teenagers

The comedian has to get a laugh from the audience, just the way a prostitute has to get an orgasm from the client. - Camille Paglia quote.
The comedian has to get a laugh from the audience, just the way a prostitute has to get an orgasm from the client.
— Camille Paglia Puritan

comedians

Every man must define his identity against his mother.  If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. - Camille Paglia quote.
Every man must define his identity against his mother.  If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
— Camille Paglia Fin de Siècle

mothers and sons

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. - Camille Paglia quote.
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.
— Camille Paglia Sexual Personae

beauty

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. - Camille Paglia quote.
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.
— Camille Paglia Sexual Personae

cats