“there have been so many times i have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary." — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The voice of women and the voice of nature have been muted under patriarchy. Women and nature are considered objects under patriarchy,… — Marti Kheel Copy Share Image
We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We’re more than borrowed titles, more than shadows wearing rings – we are roots of all survival, we are breath in everything.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
“I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge, when times is pressing and one needs to make a snap… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
God established patriarchy when he established the world. God established a patriarchal world. If we're going to have true reformation in America,… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
“Women are born to serve and breed, and when we fail at this, what else is there? What is it that we… — Felicia C. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?” — Mariam Khan Copy Share Image
“No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
