I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with. — Wunmi Mosaku 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
It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
If my stories make people uncomfortable, because it questions your set ideas and value systems that are convenient for a group of… — Kanika Dhillon 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
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
“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“It should first be understood that lesbianism, like male homosexuality, is a category of behavior possible only in a sexist society characterized… — Radicalesbians Copy Share Image
“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product… — Ryan Gosling 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
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
For a movement meant to smash the patriarchy, Equal Pay Day shares one of its worst habits - the apparent inability to… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
“Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.” — 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 accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Only a revolution of values...will end male violence, and that revolution will necessarily be based on a love ethic. To create loving… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
