On Kurt Cobain
Playboy interview (May 1995)
Camille Paglia: 326 citations0 J'aime
Camille Paglia: Citations en anglais
“Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 203
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), The Rape Debate, Continued, p. 61
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 27
“In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 12
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 1
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 3
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 218
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Rape and Modern Sex War, p. 53
“The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 216
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 89
“I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.”
On Robert Mapplethorpe’s portrait of Patti Smith on the cover of Smith’s debut album Horses (1975), p. 45
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 295
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 11
The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age (2004)
“Because boys lack a biological marker like menstruation, to be man is to be not female.”
Contemporary feminism called this "misogyny," but it was wrong. Masculine identity is embattled and fragile. In the absence of opportunity for heroic physical action, as in the modern office world, women's goodwill is crucial for preserving the male ego, which requires, alas, daily maintenance. It is in the best interests of the human race, and of women themselves, for men to be strong.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 85
Males pursue, show off, brawl, scuffle, and make general fools of themselves for love. A major failing of most feminist ideology is its dumb, ungenerous stereotyping of men as tyrants and abusers, when in fact — as I know full well from my own mortifying lesbian experience — men are tormented by women’s flirtatiousness and hemming and hawing, their manipulations and changeableness, their humiliating rejections. Cock teasing is a universal reality. It is part of women’s merciless testing and cold-eyed comparison shopping for potential mates. Men will do anything to win the favor of women.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 35
“Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 224
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), The Rape Debate, Continued, p. 61
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 262
“When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. xi
“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. No husband or day care can adequately substitute for a mother’s attention. My feminist heroes are the boldly independent and childless Amelia Earhart and Katherine Hepburn, who has been outspoken in her opposition to the delusion of “having it all.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 89
“Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.”
Camille Paglia livre Sexual Personae
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 28
In an interview about the book. " Camille Paglia on her controversial feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69rgLvitaYM" (at 10m35s), CBC News: The National on YouTube, 7 May 2017. <br class="br">Free Women, Free Men (2017)
