Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“When they (the men, the scavengers) come for you, do not give yourself to them so easily. Wear your strength like armour,… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“(...) How many ladies have there been, and still are, who deserve place among the learned; and who are more capable of… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and conduct; but yet they are… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It may be that in the long run, patriarchy has not been a successful adaptation and will lead to the extinction of… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“I know all women are supposed to be strong enough now to strangle presidents and patriarchies between their powerful thighs, but it… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“The Men who cannot deny us to be rational creatures, wou'd have us justify their irrational opinion and treatment of us, by… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“When Crimsworth praises Frances’s devoir and counsels her to cultivate her faculties, she replies not in words, but with a smile ‘in… — Claire Harman Copy Share Image
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency. Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state.… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet,… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It… — Allan G. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Women Ain't Hood Ornament (The Sonnet) Why should women have to give up, Their name when they get married, As if they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to triumph; any… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Those who claim that any woman can reprogram her consciousness if only she is sufficiently determined hold a shallow view of the… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
![“But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding us; had we the same power and advantages allowed us, which they have? (...) Are we safer under their conduct than our own? (...) There is scarce an instance in a million among…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d54/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_but-where-have-the-men-proved-that-we-ar_2276231.jpg)
![“What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said Father Damien 'A man priest or a woman priest?'... ...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't…” quote by Louise Erdrich](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c1e/louise-erdrich-1271_catholicism_what-are-you-he-nanapush-said-to-damien_1207099.jpg)
![“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it cannot be attributed to our want of capacity to fill them, but to that violence with which the Men support their unjust intrusion into our places. (...) If then we set custom and…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/265/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_we-must-be-at-least-as-well-qualified-as_1025823.jpg)
![“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state. Why may she not be as capable of heading an army as a parliament; or of commanding at sea as of reigning at land? What shou'd hinder her from holding the helm of a fleet with the same…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e01/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_why-it-shou-d-create-more-surprise-to-se_2016603.jpg)
![“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless in the world: the fear of retaliation from someone with whom one disagrees; the fear of being critisized for doing something wrong; the fear of saying…” quote by Colette Dowling](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/59c/colette-dowling-45069_anxiety_performance-anxiety-in-the-worplace-is-c_2472026.jpg)
![“If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests…” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/60b/eve-ensler-1402_attention_if-you-look-at-capitalism-and-patriarchy_1377185.jpg)
