To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread.” — Linda Robinson Copy Share Image
“There is plenty of work that needs to be done by men to dismantle patriarchy” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
“You can try and stop boys all you want, but in this world they all have a mind of their own and… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
“It must be odd having a lover as a servant." Jack said. "You mean a servant as a lover." Violet said. "What… — Lev A.C. Rosen Copy Share Image
Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older,… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Society has told women that nothing matters except themselves and that because they don't need anyone else, they shouldn't want anyone else.… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people,… — Reni Eddo-Lodge 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… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“The Dieter's Daughter Mom's got this taco guy's poem taped to the fridge, some ode to celery, which she is always eating.… — Anita Endrezze Copy Share Image
There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall,… — Angelica Ross Copy Share Image
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
I think as more people get more aware, people get more defensive. And when I say that, I mean people who are… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it, — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For a movement meant to smash the patriarchy, Equal Pay Day shares one of its worst habits - the apparent inability to… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with. — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
