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Feminism Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“Women’s studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.”
Camille Paglia
2.
“If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct – unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.”
Camille Paglia
3.
“My philosophy of equity feminism demands removal of all barriers to women’s advancement in the political and professional realms. However, I oppose special protections for women in the workplace. Treating women as more vulnerable, virtuous, or credible than men is reactionary, regressive, and ultimately counterproductive.”
Camille Paglia
4.
“The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women’s archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.”
Camille Paglia
5.
“What was distinctive in those emancipated women – and here loom my later problems with second-wave feminism – was that they never indulged in reflex male-bashing: they accepted and admired the enormity of what men had accomplished and were simply demanding a fair chance to prove that women could match or surpass it.”
Camille Paglia
6.
“Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!”
Camille Paglia
7.
“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.”
Camille Paglia
8.
“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.”
Camille Paglia
9.
“Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.”
Camille Paglia
10.
“For every gross male harasser, there are ten female sycophants who shamelessly use their sexual attractions to get ahead.”
Camille Paglia
11.
“When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.”
Camille Paglia
12.
“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.”
Camille Paglia
13.
“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.”
Camille Paglia
14.
“Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.”
Camille Paglia
15.
“Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.”
Camille Paglia
16.
“Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman’s cosmic sexual power.”
Camille Paglia
17.
“American feminism has a man problem. The beaming Betty Crockers, hangdog dowdies, and parochial prudes who call themselves feminists want men to be like women. They fear and despise the masculine. The academic feminists think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood.”
Camille Paglia
18.
“I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate it in gay activism and established feminism today.”
Camille Paglia
19.
“What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.”
Camille Paglia
20.
“Sotomayor’s vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as ‘a wise Latina’ trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment – a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.”
Camille Paglia
21.
“The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature’s bare blade without shedding our own blood.”
Camille Paglia
22.
“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.”
Camille Paglia
23.
“When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.”
Camille Paglia
24.
“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
Camille Paglia
25.
“Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”
Camille Paglia
26.
“It’s patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.”
Camille Paglia
27.
“In the theory of gender, I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
Camille Paglia
28.
“Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!”
Camille Paglia
29.
“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today’s women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.”
Camille Paglia
30.
“What troubles me about the “hostile workplace” category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.”
Camille Paglia
31.
“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.”
Camille Paglia
32.
“Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.”
Camille Paglia
33.
“The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.”
Camille Paglia
34.
“The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.”
Camille Paglia
35.
“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.”
Camille Paglia
36.
“Women’s studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.”
Camille Paglia
37.
“My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren’t created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.”
Camille Paglia
38.
“Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women’s movement of the late 1960s and ’70s.”
Camille Paglia
39.
“When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.”
Camille Paglia
40.
“I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I’m sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.”
Camille Paglia
41.
“The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man’s cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God’s enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God’s true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.”
Camille Paglia
42.
“Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.”
Camille Paglia
43.
“What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men’s own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.”
Camille Paglia
44.
“Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.”
Camille Paglia
45.
“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”
Camille Paglia
46.
“Gloria Steinem’s marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms.”
Camille Paglia
47.
“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.”
Camille Paglia
48.
“Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones.”
Camille Paglia
49.
“Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
Camille Paglia
50.
“Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.”
Camille Paglia
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