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
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
“We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
“The axiomatic thing about Saudi society is that while there are a seemingly infinite number of rules, it is also possible for… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“The secret of her success was playing the same game men played for centuries—projecting their weakness and inadequacy onto the other gender,… — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
“[Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most… — James Boswell 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you… — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Even if feminists tear down the bogeyman patriarchy and dominate men in all areas of life, they still won't be happy because… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today,… — TammyJo Eckhart Copy Share Image
“The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
“In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders… Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed.… — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
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