For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
It's not easy being a female in the U.K. pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of… — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
There were so many different factions and that's I think what my father was taking issue with was the idea of, look,… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“We are told that modern couples aren’t as flexible as the Melanesians and many of the societies surveyed earlier. Now that readers… — Lynn Saxon Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Like the absence of gender-specific terms such as glyany and androcracy from the vocabulary of historians, the systematic omission of women from… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. “While we in the West glorify male… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“This defines the task of feminism not only because male dominance is perhaps the most pervasive and tenacious system of power in… — Catharine A. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“The establishment of the Greek patriarchal world shifted the previous cultural valence from the egalitarian continuity of the Old Religion to the… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Both the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. But… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“The situation is established not only to provoke defensiveness but to sidetrack the reformer into answering the wrong questions… In this, the… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
“I'm going to ask you to remember the prostituted, the homeless, the battered, the raped, the tortured, the murdered, the raped-then-murdered, the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The fact that a woman in power must hide female qualities like lactation, is a measure of continuing male dominance.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't think it's harder to be a producer as a woman. I think it helps me because I don't get… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil… — Antonia Young Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of… — Susan G. Cole Copy Share Image
“It is no surprise, then, that the earth deities of the Old Religion were demonized or co-opted. A typical task for Greek… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
