“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men… — Lady Sophia Fermor 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
Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“...patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency. Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“When I was doing the Mademoiselle application my husband would peer over my shoulder and say, "What are you doing competing with… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations. Since I brought up patriarchy, let me make one thing clear. I am not… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers,… — Madeline Miller 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
In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started… — Amanda Foreman 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 patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question),… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
“He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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