Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Camille Paglia
Born: April 2, 1947 (age 77)
Bio: Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator".
Known for:
- Sexual Personae (1990)
- Glittering Images (2012)
- Vamps & Tramps (1994)
- Sex, art, and American culture (1992)
- Break, blow, burn (2005)
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