Camille Paglia Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

  Camille Paglia

  Overcoming, Males, Female

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

• There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

  Camille Paglia

  Female, Genius

• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Hollywood, Genius

• The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Genius, Athens

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.132, Yale University Press

• Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

  Camille Paglia

  Genius, Poetic, Emily

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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