“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
“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
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
“[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
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“Sylvia quotes Dick as telling her: "I am afraid the demands of wifehood and motherhood would preoccupy you too much to allow… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“It is quite idle (...) to insist so much on bodily strength, as a necessary qualification to military employments. And it is… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Complex systems produce complicated results, and still there are identifiable patterns: Patriarchy is a system that delivers material benefits to men—unequally depending… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“When we leave the realm of cinema, it is obvious that the dynamics of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy---which has historically represented black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually results from some primal male "fear… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“It must appear to every one (...) a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence of prejudice and custom… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Then Cato is forced at last to own that the subjection we are kept under by that arrogant sex, is the effect… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy is itself the prevailing religion of the entire planet, and its essential message is necrophilia. All of the so-called religions legitimating… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more absolute… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Let's commit ourselves to act like men - not like the men of our day who are preoccupied with money, with pleasure,… — Philip Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Emotional neglect lays the groundwork for the emotional numbing that helps boys feel better about being cut off. Eruptions of rage in… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“While there are many feminist strands, which is to say different kinds of feminism, there are also many core principles. The commitment… — Pumla Dineo Gqola Copy Share Image
My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints.… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice;… — Catharine A. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“It’s everywhere: a system of thought and a set of invented and discriminatory practices in our laws, culture and economy that feminists… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations. Since I brought up patriarchy, let me make one thing clear. I am not… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the children of all patriarchal cultural circles… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
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