Customs Quotes by Camille Paglia

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

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

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

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

— Camille Paglia

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

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

My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

— Camille Paglia

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

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

— Camille Paglia

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

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

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