Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win,… — Isabel Allende 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
“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 have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through… — Kate Millett 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
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
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
“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All… — Lierre Keith 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
Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their… — Colette Dowling 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
“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people,… — Reni Eddo-Lodge 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
I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting… — Mona Eltahawy 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
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
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
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
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
“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
“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
