513 Quotes by Camille Paglia


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    We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

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    When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

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    Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

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    Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

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    There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.

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    Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

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    Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

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