Here are a few quotes from the amazing and brilliant Camille Paglia! If you are not familiar with her definitely look her up, her perspective is so unique and refreshing to hear from the feminist camp.

  • "If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them."

  • "Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature."

  • "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."

  • "Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all."

  • "Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist."

  • "Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy."

  • "Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s."

  • "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."

  • "Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women."

  • "Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"

  • "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity."

And of course one of her most famous quotes:

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