Camille Paglia Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Feminist, Study

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.74, Canongate Books

• We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

  Camille Paglia

  Speaks Out, Abuse, Twenties

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.18, Vintage

• [T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

  Camille Paglia

  Media, Feminist, Humanity

• 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, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Art, Self

• American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Self, Pie

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Sports, Football, War

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.56, Vintage

• Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.

  Camille Paglia

  Violence, Causes, Study

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

• Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

  Camille Paglia

  Syllabus, Students, Study

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.75, Canongate Books

• 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 I think we're fighting.

  Camille Paglia

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  "Warrior for the word". Interview with Kerry Lauerman, www.salon.com. April 07, 2005.

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