I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in… — 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
The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — 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
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — 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
