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Camille Paglia
April 2, 1947 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

   

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

   

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

   

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.

   

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

   

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

   

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

   

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

   

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

   

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

   

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 moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

   

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

   

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

   

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

   

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

   

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

   

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

   

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.

   

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

   

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