I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. — 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