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Quotes from Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays — Camille Paglia

born 1947 United States

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Many things that erupt in rape or violence, or battery and so on, are happening when a woman is pushing that button of fear and dependency.

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

The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

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

The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

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

I am a passionate admire of Sappho, but that has to be one of the stupidest sentences I have ever seen in a scholarly book.

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

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

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

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

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

I am being vilified by feminists for merely having a common-sense attitude about rape.

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

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

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

Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

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

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)

In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

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

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)

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

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

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

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

Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.

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

Feminism’s claim that it discovered rape is simply false.

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

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

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

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

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

Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.

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

American feminism’s nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

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

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