Here we have a tombstone, or in some cases, it could just be a monument commemorating something that happened during a king’s reign. Everything about this to me was anti the 1950s, was anti the bourgeois culture of that period, because it’s like mystic images, cryptic signs. Here we have a rapacious falcon or hawk, which to me I always identify very strongly with carnivorous types of animals. I’m the type of dominating, aggressive woman who was totally out of sync with culture at that time. The thing is, I suppose one could say, it has a hard phallic quality. The monumentality of Egyptian culture, its imperialistic statements, its assertiveness, attracted me enormously. Plus the idea of cryptic signs and so on, I’ve always been fascinated by visual emblems. I find an exact correlation between something like this, which I could not have understood as a child, and advertisements of the period. I couldn’t read, as a small child, but I saw the images, and people doing strange things. People holding a box, and holding a box out like this, which later I could read. Tide, soap, something like that. So I felt that since as early as childhood that advertisements were never something that were just popular culture, not to be taken seriously, but rather, right from the beginning, I saw that there was a connection between ancient Pagan culture and the popular culture all around me, which my parents would not take seriously. My parents were very much against commercialism, advertisements and so on. I had a kind of stubborn interest in the cryptic signs of advertisement. So for me the Egyptian hieroglyphics and advertisement are in the same line, and its true. As I went on, I learned that the great pharoahs were advertising themselves. That’s what they were doing. I am the greatest. I am the most fabulous. What they have done, five thousand years later, we’re still reading their signs. -Camille Paglia
I have large breasts, and America is obsessed with large breasts. I know it when I walk down the street every day. But anyway, I say it’s not the size of your tits that counts, it’s how you use them. People take tits so seriously. I like to have fun with my tits. I’m into tit art. -Annie Sprinkle
-from the 1992 documentary, Female Misbehavior, four short films directed by Monika Treut