Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy… — Adrienne Rich 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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’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
In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being,… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism… — Mary Daly 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
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
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it… — Alva Myrdal 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“(...) How many ladies have there been, and still are, who deserve place among the learned; and who are more capable of… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“To step outside of patriarchal thought means overcoming the deep-seated resistance within ourselves toward accepting ourselves and our knowledge as valid. It… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“The Men who cannot deny us to be rational creatures, wou'd have us justify their irrational opinion and treatment of us, by… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet,… — Christina Hoff Sommers 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
“There's an innocent displacement, a dreaming, and idols are perfect for a little girl's dreaming. They aren't real. They aren't the gas… — Rachel Kushner 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
“[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
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
“I know all women are supposed to be strong enough now to strangle presidents and patriarchies between their powerful thighs, but it… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
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