Perhaps you're right! Kind of funny to think about.
I don't know much about Paglia's personality, but I think I know quite a bit about that of Ayn Rand, who was very judgmental on a personal level, and had basically zero skills of personality and diplomacy.
Perhaps you've heard the story, told by William F. Buckley, of meeting Ayn Rand at a dinner party back in the 1950s.
Buckley had by that time made quite a name for himself with his book God and Man at Yale, which was strongly and unambiguously conservative in its message.
According to WFB, after he was introduced to Ms. Rand, the first thing she said to him was "you are much to intelligent to believe in God."
Ayn Rand got so close to the truth at times, but ended up just as deadening, stultifying, wooden and concrete grey as anything the Soviets created. She was a sworn enemy of the collectivist mindset in all its forms and was quite good at creating a manifesto but a novelist she was not. She never shook off the state-enforced atheism of the state she hated so much, which was a pity.