Camille Paglia Quotes
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Quotes to Explore
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
