“The most common theory points to the fact that men are stronger than women and that they have used their greater physical… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
In the beginning no power differential existed between male and female. God empowered both with full rights and responsibility to rule outward… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the… — Colette Dowling 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
“Sylvia quotes Dick as telling her: "I am afraid the demands of wifehood and motherhood would preoccupy you too much to allow… — Elizabeth Winder 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
“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
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our mistresses."… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually results from some primal male "fear… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints.… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice;… — Catharine A. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“Let's commit ourselves to act like men - not like the men of our day who are preoccupied with money, with pleasure,… — Philip Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and conduct; but yet they are… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“When they (the men, the scavengers) come for you, do not give yourself to them so easily. Wear your strength like armour,… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said… — Louise Erdrich 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
“It may be that in the long run, patriarchy has not been a successful adaptation and will lead to the extinction of… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,… — Phyllis Chesler 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
“Women Ain't Hood Ornament (The Sonnet) Why should women have to give up, Their name when they get married, As if they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It… — Allan G. Johnson Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
![“Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our mistresses." 'Tis Cato says it, and therefore there needs no proof. Besides, to oblige men to prove all they advance by reason, wou'd be imposing silence upon them; a grievance…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7bd/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_let-us-treat-women-as-our-equals-says-th_645168.jpg)
![“What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said Father Damien 'A man priest or a woman priest?'... ...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't…” quote by Louise Erdrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c1e/louise-erdrich-1271_catholicism_what-are-you-he-nanapush-said-to-damien_1207099.jpg)
![“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it cannot be attributed to our want of capacity to fill them, but to that violence with which the Men support their unjust intrusion into our places. (...) If then we set custom and…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/265/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_we-must-be-at-least-as-well-qualified-as_1025823.jpg)
![“If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests…” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60b/eve-ensler-1402_attention_if-you-look-at-capitalism-and-patriarchy_1377185.jpg)
