I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but… — 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
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first… — 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
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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