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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Any Blind Care Children Claims Demands Disabled Elderly Except Frailty Gender Groups Just Kind Law Orientation Physical Power Protected Race Say Sexual Should Society Wealth Whose

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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Activism Admitted Assertiveness Before Begin Betty Book Bossy Brand Brand New Confident Created Did Energy Even Generation Her History Lifetime My Generation New Our Political Profile Something Unknown Until Were Whose Women

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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Admit Andy Andy Warhol Art Art World Artists Avant-Garde Campbell Cans Capitalism Commercial Dead Had Hero High High Time His Imagery Incorporated Like Most Scorned Soup Time Warhol Who World

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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Action Began Call Christianity Discipline Farmers Fishermen Great Kind Lure Poor Religion Rigor Shepherds Simplicity

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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.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: America American American Life Between Culture Direct Fantasies Gap Humanities Impact Knowledge Leftist Life Little Mass Mass Media Media Our Policy Problem Professors Public Public Policy Serious Whatever Which

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Abstraction Beauty Believe Change Continuing Economic Exceptional Forces Greatness History Like Meaning Men Much Nobility Order Produce Shape Shifting Validity I Believe I Believe That

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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Deep May Men Mentally Slow Though

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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Because Getting Girl Issue Plastic Plastic Surgery Really Surgery Teens

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Anymore Certainly Derived Down Individual Like Poetry Prose Roots Schools Scrutiny Skills Things Tracking Word Words Writer

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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Composer Contemporary Dictate Ear Eye Madonna Major Should

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 2nd, 1947

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