A biography for Camille Pagliahasn’t been written yet.
“I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.”
“If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.”
“I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.”
“I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.”
“Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.”
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
“I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.”
“A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.”
“Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.”
“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”
“No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.”
“Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.”
“Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.”
“Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.”
“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
“Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.”
“I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.”
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
“Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.”
“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.”