I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
“A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the children of all patriarchal cultural circles… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Essentially, we live in a patriarchy where women are being distracted from realizing their full potential by the amount of time they… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going… — Rush Limbaugh 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 thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization. To apprehend one-self as victim is to be aware of an alien and hostile force outside… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
