Camille Paglia Quotes

I don't think there's anything wrong with feminist uplift. That's how we got credit cards in our own name.

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation …

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

… since the women started out on their crusade they have scored in every project they undertook against unjust laws. I would like to see them help make the laws and those who are to enforce them. I would like to see the whiplash in women's hands.

In the history of Western countries, democratization began despite the existing patriarchy. Gender equality can be seen as an effect, rather than a cause or necessary condition, of democratization.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'

I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.