Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Quote by Camille Paglia
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Camille Paglia Quotes
- I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
- Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
- Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
- Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
- Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
- My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
- 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.
- Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
- A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
- Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
Best Quotes
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
- Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- In time of war the laws are silent.
- We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
- The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
- In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
- I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.