Camille Paglia Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Running, Teenage

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage

• Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Father, Government

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

• 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

• Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Heart, Son

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

• Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Mean

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.47, Canongate Books

• Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Son, Men

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

• Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Baby, Son

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.47, Canongate Books

• [W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Commitment, May

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.46, Vintage

• The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Blood, Feminist

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.119, Yale University Press

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Men, Female

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.46, Canongate Books

• Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Sex, Men

• All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Boys

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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