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" 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
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" I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. "
Camille Paglia
Greatness
History
Beauty
" I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. "
Camille Paglia
Principles
I Am
Who
" I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. "
Camille Paglia
Academics
Order
Waiting
" The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. "
Camille Paglia
Enemies
Remembered
Dead
" 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
Down
Words
Skills
" Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. "
Camille Paglia
Audience
Changes
Map
" I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt. "
Camille Paglia
Thinking
History
Long
" 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
Energy
Book
History
" Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. "
Camille Paglia
Education
Guys
Energy
" Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. "
Camille Paglia
Woman
Sex
Prove
" Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. "
Camille Paglia
Wise
Latina
White
" I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking. "
Camille Paglia
Future
America
Thinking
" I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it. "
Camille Paglia
See
Library
Book
" It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. "
Camille Paglia
Tradition
Work
Ideas
" High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. "
Camille Paglia
You
Struggle
Nature
" 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
Today
See
More
" Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. "
Camille Paglia
Science
Art
Mathematics
" All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! "
Camille Paglia
History
Culture
Alive
" The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. "
Camille Paglia
Audience
Value
Meaning
" What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. "
Camille Paglia
Generation
American
Young
" You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. "
Camille Paglia
Accept
You
Sex
" Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? "
Camille Paglia
Late
Like
Past
" 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. "
Camille Paglia
Most
Capitalism
World
" Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. "
Camille Paglia
May
Deep
Slow
" I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher. "
Camille Paglia
Business
Art
Nature
" Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! "
Camille Paglia
Creativity
Art
Cant
" 'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. "
Camille Paglia
Interaction
Capture
Past
" 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
Think
Well
Fan
" 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
Seriously
She
Art
" Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. "
Camille Paglia
Balancing
Work
Women