513 Quotes by Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

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.