Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Pagliais an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator". Paglia is known for her critical views of many aspects of modern culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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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 new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
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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.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
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I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
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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.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.