Camille Paglia Quotes

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are changing invisibly underneath our feet. I am playing catch up. Maybe we all are.

Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it's all women's responsibility to step forward.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

We are the women men warned us about.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.