Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. Camille Paglia More Quotes by Camille Paglia More Quotes From Camille Paglia Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. Camille Paglia reality past years One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men. Camille Paglia careers discovery men My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. Camille Paglia differences stress sex Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature. Camille Paglia reducing form may Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. Camille Paglia media new-york years The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage. Camille Paglia ice cutting college Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university. Camille Paglia feminism support world I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. Camille Paglia appearance art firsts Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son. Camille Paglia mother men son 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. Camille Paglia hollywood genius photography The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. Camille Paglia prudent resurrection political The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia encounters style intellectual Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. Camille Paglia causes violence study Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. Camille Paglia mom mother fall Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed. Camille Paglia vicious sisterhood feminist Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary. Camille Paglia art-is ordinary art The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture. Camille Paglia males retail accomplishment Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is. Camille Paglia submission butchery sex Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. Camille Paglia academic taste america Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. Camille Paglia coveting feminism school
