Camille Paglia Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.”

“I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.”

“I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.”

“It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.”

“It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.”

“Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.”

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

“You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.”

“Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.”

“Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.”