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" Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. "
Camille Paglia
Younger
Beauty
Problem
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" Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action. "
Camille Paglia
Great
Simplicity
Religion
" Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. "
Camille Paglia
Money
Education
New
" Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! "
Camille Paglia
Creativity
Art
Cant
" If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist. "
Camille Paglia
Goals
Feminism
Become
" I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. "
Camille Paglia
Political
America
Change
" Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. "
Camille Paglia
Dog
Your
Vacation
" 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
" Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. "
Camille Paglia
May
Deep
Slow
" 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
" 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
" As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites. "
Camille Paglia
Job
Talk
American
" Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? "
Camille Paglia
She
Need
Music
" 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
" 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 remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen. "
Camille Paglia
Brick
Within
Two
" I am a very reclusive, private person. "
Camille Paglia
I Am
Private
Private Person
" My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. "
Camille Paglia
Me
Like
Get
" Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. "
Camille Paglia
Spiritual
Nature
Atheist
" 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
" 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'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. "
Camille Paglia
Dream
Family
American
" 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
Music
Dance
Art
" 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
" 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
" It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. "
Camille Paglia
Dress
History
Freedom
" Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. "
Camille Paglia
Price
More
American
" 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
" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "
Camille Paglia
Boring
Head
Art
" '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
" It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts. "
Camille Paglia
Funding
Arts
Government