Susan Sontag (/ˈsɒntɑːɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, literary icon, and political activist. Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" Sontag became a lifelong international cultural and intellectual celebrity. Sontag was often photographed and her image became widely recognized even in mainstream society. Her works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, The Way We Live Now, and Regarding the Pain of Others.
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“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its ‘victims.’”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the ‘establishment.’”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)