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Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. Paglia is critical of many aspects of modern culture, and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson . She is a critic of American feminism and of post-structuralism as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history. In 2005, Paglia was ranked No. 20 on a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.

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Camille Paglia Quotes

“If you want to see what’s wrong with Ivy League education, look at The Beauty Myth, that book by Naomi Wolf. This is a woman who graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a Rhodes scholar, and she cannot write a coherent paragraph. This is a woman who cannot do historical analysis, and she is a Rhodes scholar? If you want to see the damage done to intelligent women today in the Ivy League, look at that book. It’s a scandal. Naomi Wolf is an intelligent woman. She has been ill-served by her education. But if you read Lacan, this is the result. Your brain turns to pudding. She has a case to make. She cannot make it. She’s full of paranoid fantasies about the world. Her education was completely removed from reality.”

Camille Paglia

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 262

Reading , Beauty , Intelligence , Wolf

“When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.”

Camille Paglia

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. xi

Reading

“Feminism was always wrong to pretend that women could “have it all.””

Camille Paglia

It is not male society but mother nature who lays the heaviest burden on woman. No husband or day care can adequately substitute for a mother’s attention. My feminist heroes are the boldly independent and childless Amelia Earhart and Katherine Hepburn, who has been outspoken in her opposition to the delusion of “having it all.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 89

Women

“Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.”

Camille Paglia book Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 28

Nature

“I don't want special protection for gays or transgender. I'm saying there should be protections for all dissident behavior and speech. Dissidents of every kind.”

Camille Paglia

In an interview about the book. " Camille Paglia on her controversial feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69rgLvitaYM" (at 10m35s), CBC News: The National on YouTube, 7 May 2017.
Free Women, Free Men (2017)

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