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Camille Paglia Quotes about Feminism

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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Feminism, Pills, Birth Control

Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage

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

Men, Civilization, Feminism

Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.26, Vintage

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

Vegetables, Feminist, Feminism

1992 'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. CollectedinVamps andTramps (1994).

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. Woman is the dominant sex.

Sex, Cutting, Feminism

"Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, p. 10, 1992.

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

Men, Feminism, Ancient

"Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Vampire, Feminism, Female

Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.

Exercise, Feminist, Feminism

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

Men, Enemy, Feminism

Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.111, Vintage

Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.

Men, Intellectual, Feminism

"Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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

Sex, Feminism, President

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university.

Support, Feminism, World

Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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

Long, Feminism, Dissent

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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

Gay, Feminism, Activism

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Fate, Political, Feminism

Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.28, Canongate Books

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Feminist, Suffering, Feminism

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

Compassion, Feminism, Doe

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Goal, Vision, Feminism

Women are being told "you are future leaders." Meanwhile, we are more than our jobs. One reason Sex and the City was such an enormous hit is that it expressed something that feminism won't admit: we don't know what we want. We don't know if we want children or not.

Children, Leader, Feminism

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

School, Feminism, Coveting

before feminism was, Paglia was!

Feminism, Self-importance

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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