“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I glance down to what I'm wearing. A crop top, a skirt - it's hot, and it made sense to me. I… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Essentially, we live in a patriarchy where women are being distracted from realizing their full potential by the amount of time they… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
“The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men,… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the… — Asma Barlas Copy Share Image
“It should first be understood that lesbianism, like male homosexuality, is a category of behavior possible only in a sexist society characterized… — Radicalesbians Copy Share Image
We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“ All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“I was not prepared to hear over and over from men how the women—the mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives—in their lives are constantly… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.” — Mariam Khan Copy Share Image
“Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.” — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I've been woken up by things like the MeToo movement. I didn't realize how much of the patriarchy was ingrained within my… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.” — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
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![“Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The…” quote by Russell Brand](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fd2/russell-brand-1242_creative_where-those-two-energies-male-and-female_1745783.png)
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