Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled …

- Camille Paglia

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

- Camille Paglia

Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, …

- Camille Paglia

Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreat…

- Camille Paglia

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

- Camille Paglia

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

- Camille Paglia

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

- Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

- Camille Paglia

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 n…

- Camille Paglia