Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia Copy Share
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
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.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share