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Camille Paglia on Women

born 1947 United States

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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

It is in the best interests of the human race, and of women themselves, for men to be strong.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

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

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

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

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for “women and the lazy.” His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

Women's studies is institutionalized sexism.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women’s cosmic power.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

Many things that erupt in rape or violence, or battery and so on, are happening when a woman is pushing that button of fear and dependency.

Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent “rough trade” have always paid for this kind of sex.

Vamps and Tramps (1994)

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion.

Sexuality and Gender (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Camille Paglia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.