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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.


Camille Anna Paglia

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CAMILLE PAGLIA If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-...
CAMILLE PAGLIA The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw w...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the youn...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alert...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay h...
CAMILLE PAGLIA As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural his...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provid...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but w...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My ca...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forc...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick thr...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborho...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual persona...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual wor...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed'...
CAMILLE PAGLIA A woman simply is, but a man must become.
CAMILLE PAGLIA Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their n...
CAMILLE PAGLIA The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I...
CAMILLE PAGLIA If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to...
CAMILLE PAGLIA When anything goes, it's women who lose.
CAMILLE PAGLIA I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular cul...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissid...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
CAMILLE PAGLIA I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as strippe...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.
CAMILLE PAGLIA Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
CAMILLE PAGLIA The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my...
CAMILLE PAGLIA A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
CAMILLE PAGLIA Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about ba...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Har...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the we...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did f...
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