Quotes from Camille Paglia

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

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

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

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

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

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.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

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.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.