Camille Paglia quotes

" Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. " # Jesus Christ # Comedy and Comedians # Churches

" Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! " # Compassion

" 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. " # Academia # America # Knowledge

" When anything goes, it's women who lose. " # Liberals # Men and Women # Women

" Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. " # Education # The future # Past

" The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. " # Equality # Beauty # Twentieth Century

" Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. " # Exercise # Science and Scientists # Mathematics

" We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way. " # Feminism # Twentieth Century # Arts and Artists

" In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. " # Gender # Freedom # Power

" 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. " # America # Freedom # Power