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Feminism Quotes by Camille Paglia

70 Feminism quotes by Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia challenges common ideas about gender. She argues that biological differences shape sexual stereotypes and that many fields were created by men. She also claims feminism has become intolerant of dissent, that the notion of a matriarchy lacks evidence, and that women in power can drift from masculine energy.

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When anything goes, it's women who lose.

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before feminism was, Paglia was!

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A woman simply is, but a man must become.

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It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

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Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

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It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

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I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

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Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years…

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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient…

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Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in…

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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no…

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When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or…

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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more…

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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

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In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a…

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Women are being told "you are future leaders." Meanwhile, we are more than our jobs. One reason Sex and the City was…

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Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the…

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Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then…

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What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status…

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I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels…

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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism…

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We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their…

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I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right…

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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism…

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Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on…

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The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.

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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

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Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

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Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

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There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that…

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.…