Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake,… — 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
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
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older… — 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
