Before feminism was, Paglia was! — Camille Paglia

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

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

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman’s cosmic sexual power. — Camille Paglia

I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today. — Camille Paglia

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. — Camille Paglia

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

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. — Camille Paglia

In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace. — Camille Paglia

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

A woman simply is, but a man must become. — Camille Paglia

When anything goes, it’s women who lose. — Camille Paglia

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. — Camille Paglia

I’m for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women. — Camille Paglia

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

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. — Camille Paglia

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

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

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. — Camille Paglia

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

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

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

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. — Camille Paglia

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them. — Camille Paglia

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

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

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. — Camille Paglia

I regard affirmative action as pernicious–a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle–class women. — Camille Paglia

Heaven help the American–born boy with a talent for ballet. — Camille Paglia

I’m very pro–American–my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

Uncritical American boosterism–automatic endorsement of every government action–is myopic and self–defeating. — Camille Paglia

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. — Camille Paglia

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

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. — Camille Paglia

I don’t go to New York. I don’t go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher. — Camille Paglia

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. — Camille Paglia