How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...? — Dalma Heyn Copy Share Image
“In our new world, patriarchy isn't only unjust. It is maladaptive.” — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
“It’s imperative that women throw off their conditioning and begin to stand in their own power. –Unplugging the Patriarchy” — Lucia René Copy Share Image
“For them, wives were never the better half. They were better and the half merely existed.” — Anju Shylaja Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not “radical feminism,” which… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, our over-emphasis on the male as oppressor often obscures the fact that men too are victimized. To be an oppressor is… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free. — Joan Slonczewski Copy Share Image
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