Time Quotes by Camille Paglia

17 Time quotes by Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia approaches time with a scholar’s curiosity and a provocateur’s bite. This collection of 17 reflections balances cultural critique with an eye on how eras shape and are shaped by the human pulse.

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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

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Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

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The moment there is imagination there is myth

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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the…

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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to…

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Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's…

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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,…

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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential…

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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League…

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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual…

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Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch…

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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by…

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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying…

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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to…

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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual…

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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked…

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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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