513 Quotes by Camille Paglia

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman’s cosmic sexual power.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men’s tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Human beings are not nature’s favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force.

Man’s spiritual trajectory ends in the rubbish heap of his own mother-born body.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism...

Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

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.

I sometimes call my new system ‘Italian pagan Catholicism,’ but it could more accurately be called ‘pragmatic liberalism,’ with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.