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Camille Anna Paglia (/ˈpɑːliə/; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. Paglia is critical of many aspects of modern culture, and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and other books. She is a critic of American feminism and of post-structuralism as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history. In 2005, Paglia was ranked No. 20 on a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.

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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.

Boys, Flecks, Jesus, Men, Mother, Written

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.

Egypt, Elegance, Greek, Order, Reduction, Source

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Bipolar, Illness, Mental Health, Personae, Self, Stable

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

Body, Chthonian, Female, Indifferent, Machines

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Degrees, Gifted, May, People, Sociopathic

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Compassion, Kindness, Minerva, Save, Syrup

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Creative, Criticism, Spirit

This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.

Country, Example, Inquisition, Nominal, Politics

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.

Abuse, Daemonic, Law, Model, Sex, Violation

All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.

Competition, Dance, Heap, Kings, Sign, Stars

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

Males, Femme, Term, Mystique, Perfectly

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Quality, Opera, Soap, Daytime, Used

I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.

1950S, Church, Gay, Girl, Hate

The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.

Error, Errors, Floor, Ink, Thinking, Years

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Female, Hilarious, Inspirational, Men, Mozart, Ripper

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

Connecting, Link, Links, Mind, Poetry

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Argument, Fit, Mass, Pushing, Species, Thrive

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

Heart, Hearts, League, Maturity, Pheromones, Secret

Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.

Art, Idealism, Lesbian, Males, Mind

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.

Accommodation, Charismatic, Hot And Cold, Men, Self, Unity

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