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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Above African-American Any Culture Did Far Feminist Leader More Popular Popular Culture Rock Rock N Roll Roll Roots Than Us

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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

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Topics: Legacy Over Still War 1960S

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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: American Belongs Brown Europe Ideas Jacques Linked Marshall Norman North North American Poorly Postwar Recovery Substitute Thinkers Time Tradition Transfer Whose Work Would

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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

Topics: American Assertive Began Both British Canada Encounter English Immigrants Intellectual Maintain North North American Plain Pragmatic Protestant Romanticism Scottish Style Tradition

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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Am Democrat Determined Era Franklin Party Principles Proletarian Registered Return Roosevelt Who I Am

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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

Topics: About Bad Bad Behavior Behavior Clan Godfather He Himself His History Kennedy Liberal Media Million Million Years Much Never New Our Put Spot Ted Whose Would Years

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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.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Argued Constantly Fate Geography Godless Human Nature Over Randomly Real Superpower Ultimate Universe Work

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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: America Analyst Audacious Change Committed Courageous David Engaged He Irreverent Most Original Passionately Political Respect Social Social Change Spirit True 1960S

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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Ambition Beauty No Problem Problem Professional Woman Women Younger

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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Along Get Lesbians Like Me Problem Them

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 2nd, 1947

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