Female Quotes - Page 35

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

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Lust, Survival

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Vampire, Feminism, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Body, Uncanny

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.79, Vintage

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• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.119, Yale University Press

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• I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

  Camille Paglia

  Successful, Men, Views

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

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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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• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Men, Territory

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.46, Canongate Books

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• The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

  Florence King

  Vanity, Lust, Twenties

  "The Florence King Reader". Book by Florence King, 1995.

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• The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

  Edward Albee

  Women, Home, Mean

  Lee Krasner, John Cheim, Edward Albee, Lisa Liebmann, Stephen Westfall (1991). “Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970”

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• The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.

  Willem de Kooning

  Silly, Light, Idols

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.

  Hugh Hefner

  Beer, Men, Males

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• It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.

  Hugh Hefner

  Women, Views, Feminine Beauty

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• I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

  Osamu Dazai

  Women, Males, Found

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.48, New Directions Publishing

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• At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

  Lucy Lawless

  Female Role Models, Roles, Letters

  "Is it a bird?". The Sunday Times, July 27, 1997.

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• When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Makeup, Men

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

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• Male makeup is men's titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they'd like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Makeup, Men

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

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• When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.

  Warren Farrell

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Framework, (...) addiction to female beauty and sex; deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return; (.

  Warren Farrell

  Beautiful, Sex, Men

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• As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.

  Warren Farrell

  Taken, Past, Men

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

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• The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

  Warren Farrell

  Teenage, Mind, Body

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Were we to still be circumcising the hood of the female clitoris, we would not have difficulty considering this a continuation of our tradition to keep girls sexually repressed. America's reflexive continuation of [male] circumcision-without-research reflects the continuation of our tradition to desensitize boys to feelings of pain, to prepare them to question the disposability of their bodies no more than they would question the disposability of their foreskins.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Pain, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

  Warren Farrell

  Past, Men, Careers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

  Warren Farrell

  Rights, Fusion, Males

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

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• The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Taken, Hero

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

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• If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

  Warren Farrell

  Boss, Like Her, Employee

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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