Camille Paglia Quotes About Activism

Quotes about: Activism

• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  Camille Paglia

  Baby, Book, Political

• In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Order, Political

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.32, Vintage

• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Feminism, Activism

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

• I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Hate, Gay

  Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

• There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

  Camille Paglia

  Spiritual, Kings, Gay

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

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