“For them, wives were never the better half. They were better and the half merely existed.” — Anju Shylaja Kumar Copy Share Image
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
“He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off… — John Legend Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men,… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
“I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“It should first be understood that lesbianism, like male homosexuality, is a category of behavior possible only in a sexist society characterized… — Radicalesbians Copy Share Image
“Only a revolution of values...will end male violence, and that revolution will necessarily be based on a love ethic. To create loving… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I think that what we need is a balance between men and women. I don't believe in the value of the matriarchy… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“When I was doing the Mademoiselle application my husband would peer over my shoulder and say, "What are you doing competing with… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
If my stories make people uncomfortable, because it questions your set ideas and value systems that are convenient for a group of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
I have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh… — Leah Harris Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We have noted thatthe two creation stories contained no pointers toward male “headship” in the sense that men or husbands are supposed… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, our over-emphasis on the male as oppressor often obscures the fact that men too are victimized. To be an oppressor is… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“The Dieter's Daughter Mom's got this taco guy's poem taped to the fridge, some ode to celery, which she is always eating.… — Anita Endrezze Copy Share Image
“In our new world, patriarchy isn't only unjust. It is maladaptive.” — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...? — Dalma Heyn Copy Share Image
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