Feminism Quote by Camille Paglia

“American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“It would be half-wrong to say it started with Sigmund Freud. It did not really start, in America, until the 1940s. And then again,…

— Betty Friedan

“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma…

— Peter Brooks

“When I was called a feminist, during those days, my first thought was, But I willingly give blow jobs. I had it in my…

— Roxane Gay

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

— Simone de Beauvoir

A feminist jumps out of a manhole - oh, and she didn't like that.

— Bill Bailey

“Even Freud was fooled by the hysterics of women’s responses and wrote them off as largely incapable, random and duplicitous to their own interests.”

— Rollo Tomassi

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims.…

— Camille Paglia

“Womanism is feminism's vulgate. It asserts that women are the oppressed or the victims and never the collaborators in the 'bad' things that men…

— Rosalind Coward

“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for women’s sexual…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“There is no true femininity without sensuality. Otherwise it’s called feminism.”

— Lebo Grand