Feminist Quotes - Page 36

• Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

  Camille Paglia

  Grandmother, Clothes, Culture

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Blood, Moral

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Class

  "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Revenge

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• Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

  Camille Paglia

  Sisterhood, Vicious, Treats

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.80, Vintage

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• In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Thinking, Differences

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Study, Academic

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.74, Canongate Books

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• I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Women, Successful, Good Friend

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• Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Children, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Hands

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Should Have

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Doors, Kind

  "Keeping it Unreal: In the Studio with Chvrches". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2015.

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• Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Space, Vision

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.95, Routledge

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• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there's sort of the expectation that you're super-strong superwoman but you're just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Strong, Talking

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Men, Intellectual

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Dream, Sex, Integrity

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Believe, Labour

  The Times, November 10, 2007.

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• I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

  J. F. Lawton

  Fantasy, Kind, Tied Up

  "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

  Ellen Willis

  Order, Luxury, Numbers

  "No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays". Book by Ellen Willis, "Lust Horizons: Is the Woman's Movement Pro-Sex?" (1981), 1992.

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• Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male-dominated fields.

  Jennifer Shahade

  Book, Play, Ideas

  "Jennifer Shahade, Author, Chess Bitch, U.S. Women's Chess Champion 2002, 2004". Interview with Rachel Kramer Bussel, gothamist.com. December 28, 2006.

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• We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.

  Melissa Farley

  Thinking, Deserve

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• CREATIVITY first of all aims to achieve a REVOLUTION OF VALUES THROUGH RELIGION, therefore it completely and categorically rejects the Judeo-Christian-democratic-Marxist-liberal-feminist values of today and supplants them with new and basic values of which RACE IS THE FOUNDATION.

  Ben Klassen

  Christian, Creativity, Race

  "The Little White Book". Book by Ben Klassen, 1991.

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• The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

  Ilana Mercer

  Economist, Von Mises, Propositions

  "Libertarian Feminists Make a Move on Von Mises". www.wnd.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Taken, Fighting

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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