“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that… — Bonnie Burstow Copy Share Image
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness.… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“it appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it will then appear… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization. To apprehend one-self as victim is to be aware of an alien and hostile force outside… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being,… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question),… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“Shouting about gender equality once a year doesn't end the patriarchal and misogynistic stereotypes. We must live every day as women's day,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If you think you are doing the right thing, if you think you are on the right path, never be bullied. I've… — Reham Khan Copy Share Image
the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
![“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8fc/virginia-woolf-49_female-friendship_and-i-tried-to-remember-any-case-in-the_1532397.jpg)
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