Quotes by Camille Paglia

About Camille Paglia:

Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator". Paglia is known for her critical views of many aspects of modern culture, including liberalism.[not in citation given]
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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Camille Paglia

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport...

Camille Paglia

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-...

Camille Paglia

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

Camille Paglia

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Camille Paglia

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Camille Paglia

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

Camille Paglia

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Camille Paglia

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

Camille Paglia

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

I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

Camille Paglia

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

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Camille Paglia

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

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

Camille Paglia

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

Camille Paglia

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.

Camille Paglia

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

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Camille Paglia

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

Camille Paglia

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

Author Bio

  • NameCamille Paglia
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornApril 2, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArt Historian; Professor; Writer