Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting… — 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
I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be… — 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
If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've… — 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
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design… — 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
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — 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
