As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls… — Shabana Azmi 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
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
The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years!… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so… — Ellen Page 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
“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
“In a patriarchal society like ours, says Horley, domestic violence will always be with us. “Women don’t even have equal pay. Girls… — The Guardian Copy Share Image
When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Men did care enough to struggle with our demands. And some cared enough to convert to feminist thinking and to change. But… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“In accepting as two primary texts, Singer's Animal Liberation and Regan's The Case for Animal Rights--texts that valorize rationality--the animal defense movement… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“Yet this incarnation of the Black male endangerment narrative does more than ignore women and girls. In a patriarchal society in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Growing in tandem is virtually impossible in a patriarchal society, as ours has been. Only one-half of the couple has the use… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread. — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When we’d finished, I asked the division planner if he had left out anyone in the division. “No, Manal,” he told me.… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I was first sexually exploited when I was seven, by a distant cousin at a family wedding. Even after that I was… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Working with students and families from diverse class backgrounds, I am constantly amazed at how difficult it is to cross boundaries in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“As I have explained in earlier chapters, abusiveness has little to do with psychological problems and everything to do with values and… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
