“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
“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
Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the… — Hanna Rosin 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
“Why should women have to give up their name upon marriage, as if they are nothing but hood ornaments to their husbands!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The poet doesn’t know what the poem, finally, will be “about” when he uses the word’s etymology as a starting point before… — Natasha Sajé 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
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes with boys that the tyranny of patriarchy has had a much more devastating blow on boys than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end — Maria Mies Copy Share Image
“There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to triumph; any… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women” — Virginia Woolf 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
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
“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.” — Mariam Khan 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
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the… — Dennis Kucinich 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
