513 Quotes by Camille Paglia

Every month, it is woman’s fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman’s sexuality.

I guess I’m just a natural warrior.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest.

What was distinctive in those emancipated women – and here loom my later problems with second-wave feminism – was that they never indulged in reflex male-bashing: they accepted and admired the enormity of what men had accomplished and were simply demanding a fair chance to prove that women could match or surpass it.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman’s womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

Sotomayor’s vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as ‘a wise Latina’ trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment – a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.