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Camille Paglia on Women

born 1947 United States

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32 quotes

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Sexual Personae (1990)

What women have to realize is their own dominance as a sex.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

The femme fatale is one of the most mesmerizing of sexual personae. She is not a fiction but an extrapolation of biologic realities in women that remain constant.

Sexual Personae (1990)

Men are looking for maternal solace in women, and that's the nature of heterosexuality. Now you tell me, who really has all the power?

Playboy interview (1995)

Women have the right to freely choose and to say yes or no. Everyone should be personally responsible for what happens in life.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

The money is a confession of weakness. They have to buy women's attention. It's not a sign of power; it's a sign of weakness.

Sexuality and Gender (2002)

Feminism was always wrong to pretend that women could “have it all.” It is not male society but mother nature who lays the heaviest burden on woman.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Stephen K. Sanderson (2001)

Women have to understand this correctly and they'll protect themselves better. If a real rape occurs, it's got to go to the police.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the Stones. Dream on.

Playboy interview (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Camille Paglia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.