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
rushing people world
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 rushing world of evanescent words.
world weakness aristocracy
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.
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.
support feminism world
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
brave-new-world men sharks
If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.
men world presses
Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.
past doors dizzy
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
anxiety cosmos analysis
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.
men identity may
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
dance kings stars
All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.
art giving soul
A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.
children father boys
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.
sex women cities
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
nature imagination action
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.