Camille Paglia Quotes - Page 13

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• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Hollywood, Genius

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• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  Camille Paglia

  Baby, Book, Political

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• Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

  Camille Paglia

  New York, Media, Years

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• No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

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  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.72, Vintage

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• Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

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  Army, College, Records

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• My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

  Camille Paglia

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Government

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• America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.

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  Country, America, Space

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• In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

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  Gay, Order, Political

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.32, Vintage

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• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

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  Party, Exercise, Black

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

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  Art, America, Mind

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.11, Vintage

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• Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

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  Poetry, Mind, Links

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.46, Canongate Books

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• Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, 'No more masks.' Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Color, Impact

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• Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

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  Video, Evident

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Lasts, Renaissance

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• Women are being told "you are future leaders." Meanwhile, we are more than our jobs. One reason Sex and the City was such an enormous hit is that it expressed something that feminism won't admit: we don't know what we want. We don't know if we want children or not.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Leader, Feminism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

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  Damage Is Done, Years, Feckless

  "The President's Healthcare Horror". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

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  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

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  Warrior, Natural

  "‘I Don’t Get Along With Lesbians’: An Interview With Camille Paglia". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  Camille Paglia

  Persons

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• Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

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  Years, Doe, Needs

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• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

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  Treasure, Afghanistan, American Life

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• Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

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  Home, Issues, Choices

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• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

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  Roots, Rocks, Feminist

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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  Camille Paglia

  Winning, Doors, Flames

  "Too Late For Obama to Turn It Around?". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 9, 2009.

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