Camille Paglia Quote

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.

p. 89 - Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)