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Camille Paglia  Quotes
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

—Camille Paglia

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I am a very reclusive, private person.

—Camille Paglia

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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 spirit – audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to...

—Camille Paglia

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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women’s movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There’s no room for dissent.

—Camille Paglia

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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no...

—Camille Paglia

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America
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There’s a whole...

—Camille Paglia

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I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical ’60s libertarian.

—Camille Paglia

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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

—Camille Paglia

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Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be ‘fixed’ by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature’s fascism is...

—Camille Paglia

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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan – it’s the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

—Camille Paglia

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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by...

—Camille Paglia

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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

—Camille Paglia

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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

—Camille Paglia

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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

—Camille Paglia

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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

—Camille Paglia

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CapitalismLiving
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio – a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion...

—Camille Paglia

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I have a long view of history – my orientation is archaeological because I’m always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

—Camille Paglia

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ThinkingView
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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 and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

—Camille Paglia

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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

—Camille Paglia

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Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ series isn’t just entertainment for devoted fans like me – it’s an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

—Camille Paglia

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Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the...

—Camille Paglia

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I guess I’m just a natural warrior.

—Camille Paglia

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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I’m very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job...

—Camille Paglia

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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

—Camille Paglia

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

—Camille Paglia

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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

—Camille Paglia

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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

—Camille Paglia

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don’t do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots.

—Camille Paglia

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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren’t created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as...

—Camille Paglia

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Book
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Because of my own family’s service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

—Camille Paglia

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ServiceStrong
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Popular culture – above all rock ‘n’ roll, with its African-American R & B roots – did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

—Camille Paglia

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CultureFarRock
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

—Camille Paglia

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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want...

—Camille Paglia

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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 defend myself at all times.

—Camille Paglia

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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 going to be a slow debasement of language, and that’s what...

—Camille Paglia

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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

—Camille Paglia

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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not...

—Camille Paglia

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OftenSeem
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I don’t like reality shows and have never watched them, but I’m addicted to ‘Real Housewives’ because it’s authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

—Camille Paglia

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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

—Camille Paglia

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Back in the 1960s , I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

—Camille Paglia

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The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

—Camille Paglia

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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you’ve had a prior training in book culture.

—Camille Paglia

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BookCultureSort
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Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it’s grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there...

—Camille Paglia

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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

—Camille Paglia

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DeepThough
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia’s neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today’s bland daytime soaps.

—Camille Paglia

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FarStrongerToday
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

—Camille Paglia

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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life’s goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

—Camille Paglia

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GoalsVision
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah,...

—Camille Paglia

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AnyoneHer
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

—Camille Paglia

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Legacy
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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 be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands...

—Camille Paglia

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