Madonna Quotes by Camille Paglia

9 Madonna quotes by Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia’s nine quotations provide a concise, analytical view of Madonna, giving readers a quick, scholarly glimpse into her commentary on the icon.

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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

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Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy…

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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that…

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Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining…

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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,…

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Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her…

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Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,…

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

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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.…

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

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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

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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…

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

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

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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…

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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that…

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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.…

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