Camille Paglia Quote

One of feminism's irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for patriarchal society, to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman. It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book. Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture.

p. 37 - Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)