Camille Paglia Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Order, Identity

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.28, Canongate Books

• Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Identity, May

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  Camille Paglia

  Mom, Mother, Fall

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.23, Vintage

• The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Law, Identity

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.37, Canongate Books

• In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Zero, Identity, Privilege

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.107, Vintage

• Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Identity, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.104, Vintage

• The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

  Camille Paglia

  Doors, Identity, Next

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