For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women’s cosmic power. - Camille Paglia

[T]here’s a lot to be said for celibacy, for the concentration of your mental and physical energy.

Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

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