Camille Paglia Quotes

Everybody is not a victim.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life—which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

You control what you can control.

I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

No one can make you a victim but yourself.

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.