Camille Paglia Quotes About Illness

Quotes about: Illness

• Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Self, Bipolar, Mental Health

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.103, Vintage

• 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

• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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