Camille Paglia Quotes

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.