20 Questions: Camille Paglia

October, 1991

20 Questions: Camille PagliaLike her hero the Marquis de Sade, Camille Paglia considers herself "an independent thinker who shocks." Paglia, a Yale Ph.D. who's an associate professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, has shocked critics, academics and feminists with her thesis that human biology contributes much more than modern men and women--especially women--are willing to admit when it comes to ambition and achievement. Paglia insists, "There is trut...