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" I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian. "
Camille Paglia
Consider
Conservative
Myself
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" A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. "
Camille Paglia
Hair
Children
Women
" Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. "
Camille Paglia
Anxiety
Women
Feel
" A woman simply is, but a man must become. "
Camille Paglia
Man
Must
Simply
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me. "
Camille Paglia
People
Angry
Work
" 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
" Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits. "
Camille Paglia
Video Games
Ugly
News
" Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. "
Camille Paglia
Sovereignty
Always
Dignity
" As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. "
Camille Paglia
Time
Think
Spiritual
" 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
" As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal. "
Camille Paglia
Politicians
I Am
Late
" Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. "
Camille Paglia
Mom
Mother
Back
" 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 am a very reclusive, private person. "
Camille Paglia
I Am
Private
Private Person
" Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. "
Camille Paglia
American
Family
Men
" My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. "
Camille Paglia
Great
Because
Liberalism
" I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen. "
Camille Paglia
Brick
Within
Two
" 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
" Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began. "
Camille Paglia
People
Should
About
" 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
Believe
Think
View
" 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 want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. "
Camille Paglia
Want
Women
Start
" 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
" 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
Clan
Behavior
" I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. "
Camille Paglia
Wonderful
Action
System
" I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial. "
Camille Paglia
View
Foundation
Long
" As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. "
Camille Paglia
Should
Composer
Eye