... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of… — Shereen El Feki 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
“Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women… — Elizabeth Lesser 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
“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
There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that… — Marilyn Frye 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
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“This perpetual success of war and failure of peace is then said to be “the human condition”—but it is only the condition… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men -… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the… — 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
“But I do have conversations about the Patriarchy and I am having them with gay men. At eighteen, I am discovering what… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women.… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that… — Bonnie Burstow Copy Share Image
To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
