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
war love-is force
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
war legacy rage
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
warrior natural
I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
war fate world
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
strong new-york war
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.
sex war currents
Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.
sports football war
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
war book quality
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
art honor criticism
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
dream sex gay
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.
reality style nuclear
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
stars power greatness
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.
sexy clever funny-sex
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
sex order identity
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.