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Camille Paglia

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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.


— Camille Paglia


#am #classes #collected #day #essays

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.


— Camille Paglia


#body #everybody #her #his #however

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.


— Camille Paglia


#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.


— Camille Paglia


#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism

I guess I'm just a natural warrior.


— Camille Paglia


#i #just #natural #warrior

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.


— Camille Paglia


#being #bland #charismatic #daytime #far

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.


— Camille Paglia


#center #education #era #materialism #must

Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.


— Camille Paglia


#been #broad #doing #fan #i

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.


— Camille Paglia


#into #manhood #sensitivity

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


— Camille Paglia


#compete #dies #does #her #junior






About Camille Paglia






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For over a decade Paglia was the partner of artist Alison Maddex. Clive James noted that Paglia tends to focus on American works as it moves from Shakespeare forward through time with Yeats following Coleridge as the last European discussed but emphasized her range of sympathy and her ability to juxtapose and unite distinct art forms in her analysis.

She is known as a critic of American feminism and is also strongly critical of the influence of French writers such as Jacques Lacan Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Paglia has celebrated Madonna and taken radical libertarian positions on controversial social issues such as abortion homosexuality and drug use. She wrote Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) a best-selling work of literary criticism among other books and essays.

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