Camille Paglia Quotes

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God."

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

So this is feminist corner then.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

American women don't need to be lectured about values by men in Washington.

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

People get really turned off by feminism.