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Camille Paglia
April 2, 1947 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

   

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!

   

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

   

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

   

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

   

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

   

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.

   

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

   

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

   

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

   

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

   

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.

   

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

   

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