I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Like the absence of gender-specific terms such as glyany and androcracy from the vocabulary of historians, the systematic omission of women from… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. “While we in the West glorify male… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Both the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. But… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“It is no surprise, then, that the earth deities of the Old Religion were demonized or co-opted. A typical task for Greek… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
It's not easy being a female in the U.K. pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of… — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the… — Gloria Steinem 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
There were so many different factions and that's I think what my father was taking issue with was the idea of, look,… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“This defines the task of feminism not only because male dominance is perhaps the most pervasive and tenacious system of power in… — Catharine A. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't think it's harder to be a producer as a woman. I think it helps me because I don't get… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I'm often asked if I'm a feminist. This I suspect has something to do with the fact that I write a column… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“We are told that modern couples aren’t as flexible as the Melanesians and many of the societies surveyed earlier. Now that readers… — Lynn Saxon Copy Share Image
