Camille Quotes

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

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

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

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.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

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

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

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

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

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.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

If you read only the New York Times- I said, 'Oh my God!' The readers of the New York Times are heading for a major, major breakdown shock if Trump is in fact elected.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

The supernatural does not exist.

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?

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

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.