513 Quotes by Camille Paglia

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    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!

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    I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

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    I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.

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    Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

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    It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

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    My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

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    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.

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    My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

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    Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

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