There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. — 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 Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
