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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

  Camille Paglia

  Speech, Ifs

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.51, Vintage

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• Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

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  Men, Feminist, Study

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.74, Canongate Books

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• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Class, Ordinary

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• The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Fall, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

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  Hatred, Males, Universal

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

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• Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

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  Dream, Sex, Gay

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

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  Camille Paglia

  Love, Essence, Seduction

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

  Camille Paglia

  Firsts, Incidents, Abusers

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.43, Vintage

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• Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling." Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.

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  Taken, Fighting, Boys

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

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• 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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• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

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  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Vampire, Feminism, Female

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

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  Mind, Sexuality, Veneer

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

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  Female, Machines, Body

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

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• Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

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  Defense, Construction, Artificial

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.1, Yale University Press

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• Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

  Camille Paglia

  Mad, Consciousness, Adaptation

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.44, Canongate Books

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• Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

  Camille Paglia

  Book, Writing, Sisterhood

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Class

  "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Reality, Fog

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

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• Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Glowing, Hot And Cold

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• Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

  Camille Paglia

  Religious, Hallmark, Perpetual

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• Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Mirrors, Cells

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• What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

  Camille Paglia

  Flower, Feminist, Special

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.44, Vintage

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