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
“It must appear to every one (...) a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence of prejudice and custom… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“I glance down to what I'm wearing. A crop top, a skirt - it's hot, and it made sense to me. I… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is… — Andrea Dworkin 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
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the… — Patrisse Cullors 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
“(...) 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the… — Bell Hooks 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
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older,… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than… — Kate Millett 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
