Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia Copy Share
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
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