“In our new world, patriarchy isn't only unjust. It is maladaptive.” — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...? — Dalma Heyn Copy Share Image
If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free. — Joan Slonczewski Copy Share Image
“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?” — Mariam Khan Copy Share Image
“Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread.” — Linda Robinson Copy Share Image
“It should first be understood that lesbianism, like male homosexuality, is a category of behavior possible only in a sexist society characterized… — Radicalesbians Copy Share Image
“She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
For a movement meant to smash the patriarchy, Equal Pay Day shares one of its worst habits - the apparent inability to… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“In patriarchy, the female is not only seen as property—first her father’s, then husband’s—her sexual sanctity and propriety become central to these… — Namit Arora Copy Share Image
My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall,… — Angelica Ross Copy Share Image
I think as more people get more aware, people get more defensive. And when I say that, I mean people who are… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
“The Dieter's Daughter Mom's got this taco guy's poem taped to the fridge, some ode to celery, which she is always eating.… — Anita Endrezze Copy Share Image
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“ All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Women are born to serve and breed, and when we fail at this, what else is there? What is it that we… — Felicia C. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“There is plenty of work that needs to be done by men to dismantle patriarchy” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“They will tell you home is safe zone. No, bitch face is safe zone. Bitch face is home. Bitch face is cutting… — Olivia Gatwood Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
