Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift… The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae. — 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
