“Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“This perpetual success of war and failure of peace is then said to be “the human condition”—but it is only the condition… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men -… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You know, we live in this kind of patriarchy, and women feel as a result that they have to be the passive… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
“The poet doesn’t know what the poem, finally, will be “about” when he uses the word’s etymology as a starting point before… — Natasha Sajé Copy Share Image
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The most common theory points to the fact that men are stronger than women and that they have used their greater physical… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Why should women have to give up their name upon marriage, as if they are nothing but hood ornaments to their husbands!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The misrepresentation of God as strictly male has wounded women in every area of their lives. Women are raped, abused, molested, trafficked… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes with boys that the tyranny of patriarchy has had a much more devastating blow on boys than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
You see, feminists don't really like to define the Patriarchy. They prefer to keep it nebulous and amorphous so they can conveniently… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“But I do have conversations about the Patriarchy and I am having them with gay men. At eighteen, I am discovering what… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“They will tell you home is safe zone. No, bitch face is safe zone. Bitch face is home. Bitch face is cutting… — Olivia Gatwood Copy Share Image
“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women.… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
