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Camille Paglia Quotes

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

Camille Paglia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 2, 1947

Topics

Women Past American Late Young Over

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

Jennifer Lopez

Stand Doubt You Know Just Who

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Andrea Dworkin

Reality Genius Rebellion Oppressor

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Maya Lin

You Nothing Next Guaranteed Before

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

Andy Kindler

Funny Respect Time Believe Comedy

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Sue Miller

Challenge Start Choices Voice Think

Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.

Mike Nichols

Fear Comedy You Who Much About

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

Mike D

Sitting Working Our Front Laptops

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.

Josette Sheeran

Food Job War People Safety Conflict

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

Jonathan Kozol

White Than Pupil Receive Less Per

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

David Slade

Beginning I Am People Sand Late Far

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

Cher

Life Man My Life Person Order

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Chuck Palahniuk

Woman Problem Kind Different Just