“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
“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
“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our… — Lady Sophia Fermor 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
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness.… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.” — Darnell Lamont Walker 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
“When Crimsworth praises Frances’s devoir and counsels her to cultivate her faculties, she replies not in words, but with a smile ‘in… — Claire Harman Copy Share Image
“...enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
If you think you are doing the right thing, if you think you are on the right path, never be bullied. I've… — Reham Khan Copy Share Image
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“You can try and stop boys all you want, but in this world they all have a mind of their own and… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
“What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to us?… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
“It must be odd having a lover as a servant." Jack said. "You mean a servant as a lover." Violet said. "What… — Lev A.C. Rosen Copy Share Image
