So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
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Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and… — Jake Weber Copy Share Image
If you think you are doing the right thing, if you think you are on the right path, never be bullied. I've… — Reham Khan Copy Share Image
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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“My father despises cats. He believes them to be Democrats. He considers them to be little mean hillary clintons covered all over… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
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Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
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I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
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“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Shouting about gender equality once a year doesn't end the patriarchal and misogynistic stereotypes. We must live every day as women's day,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
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Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
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Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been… — Peter Paige 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
One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness.… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
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It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
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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
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I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
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Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
![“The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.” quote by Mary Daly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/465/mary-daly-12589_etymology_the-word-sin-is-derived-from-the-indo-eu_889160.jpg)
![“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8fc/virginia-woolf-49_female-friendship_and-i-tried-to-remember-any-case-in-the_1532397.jpg)
![“[Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.” quote by James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59b/james-boswell-7136_dr-johnson_dr-johnson-thought-that-men-know-that-wo_2655423.jpg)
