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Camille Paglia

American Author

Born: Apr 2, 1947

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

Because Female Jack Mozart

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

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. Camille Paglia

Dog Sex Like Feminists Leaving Your Letting Vacation

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. Camille Paglia

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. Camille Paglia

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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action. Camille Paglia

Great Religion Simplicity Discipline Fishermen Action Christianity Kind Rigor Call Shepherds Began Poor Farmers Dispossessed Lure

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

Great Generation Our Liberalism Destroyed My Generation Excess Ideals Because Sixties

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. Camille Paglia

Nature You Struggle Survival Fire Back Our Harsh High Mysterious Primal Forces Reveal Still Mammoth Dependency Romanticism Lovely Us Gross Fling Shows Flood

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. Camille Paglia

Woman Women Sex Men Worthy Attention Stuff Sort Prove Dominant

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. Camille Paglia

Sexuality Seduction Pursuit Part Essence

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 impact whatever on public policy. Camille Paglia

Life Knowledge Culture Problem Whatever Humanities Our Impact Direct Between Mass Mass Media Policy Leftist America American Which Public Little American Life Fantasies Public Policy Gap Serious Media Professors

When anything goes, it's women who lose. Camille Paglia

Women Lose Goes Anything Who

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 those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. Camille Paglia

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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial. Camille Paglia

History Obligation Long Broad Absolutely Crucial Students Course Felt Always Provide Huge Overview View Teachers Foundation

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters. Camille Paglia

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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 clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. Camille Paglia

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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. Camille Paglia

Day Waiting Collected Classes For The Day Academics Am Essays Order James

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. Camille Paglia

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