513 Quotes by Camille Paglia

I view each world religion, including Judeo-Christianity and Islam, as a complex symbol system, a metaphysical lens through which we can see the vastness and sublimity of the universe. Knowledge of the Bible, one of the West’s foundational texts, is a dangerously waning among aspiring young artists and writers. When a society becomes all-consumed in the provincial minutiae of partisan politics, all perspective is lost.

It’s so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I’m too lazy to be a lesbian.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

Nature is forever playing solitaire with herself.

It’s patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

Despite crime’s omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Tragic woman is less moral than man. Her will-to-power is naked. Her actions are under a chthonian cloud.

I’m for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

Love is imploring humanity: Set down your burden of doubt; in perfect faith there is neither fear nor struggle.