Camille Paglia Quotes and Sayings

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

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

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!

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

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

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.

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

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.

When anything goes, it’s women who lose.