Quote by Camille Paglia
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something

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

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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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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 dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia

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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesnt repel them. – Camille Paglia

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In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold

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