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
Elizabeth Taylor
is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing
greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism
cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor,
we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like
Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss
the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliché. But the
femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the
sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's
relations with women.
-- Acting And Actors
Teenage boys,
goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde.
They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between
control by their mothers and control by their wives.
-- Adolescence
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
My thinking
tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the
state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy,
prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I
would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a
representative democracy.
-- Anarchism
There is no
true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the
humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a
fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a
distortion.
-- Arts And Artists
Beauty is our
weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit,
symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux
of nature.
-- Beauty
Capitalism is
an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is
hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the
pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it.
Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give
Caesar his due.
-- Capitalism
Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator
