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" 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
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" My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family. "
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" Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. "
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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. "
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" 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
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American
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" No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. "
Camille Paglia
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" 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
" 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
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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
" 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
" Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion. "
Camille Paglia
Pride
Real
Universe
" '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
" Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting. "
Camille Paglia
Expect
Right
Attack
" I am a very reclusive, private person. "
Camille Paglia
I Am
Private
Private Person
" Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. "
Camille Paglia
Late
Past
Women
" 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
" As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. "
Camille Paglia
Should
Composer
Eye
" Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. "
Camille Paglia
Geography
Work
Universe
" I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer. "
Camille Paglia
New
Web
I Am
" The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. "
Camille Paglia
Political
Why
Talk
" My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. "
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Me
Like
Get
" Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. "
Camille Paglia
Speak
Party
Lawyers
" 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
" 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
" It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. "
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Capitalism
Hero
Soup
" We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. "
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Complex
Days
Few
" 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
" Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. "
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Television
Life
Madness
" 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. "
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Wonderful
Action
System
" It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts. "
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Funding
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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. "
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House
Angry
American