I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness werent 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