I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“I was not prepared to hear over and over from men how the women—the mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives—in their lives are constantly… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary." — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
“As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not “radical feminism,” which… — Matthew Fox 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
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
“It’s imperative that women throw off their conditioning and begin to stand in their own power. –Unplugging the Patriarchy” — Lucia René Copy Share Image
“It must be odd having a lover as a servant." Jack said. "You mean a servant as a lover." Violet said. "What… — Lev A.C. Rosen Copy Share Image
“You can try and stop boys all you want, but in this world they all have a mind of their own and… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something… — Marc Lamont Hill 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
“Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“We’re more than borrowed titles, more than shadows wearing rings – we are roots of all survival, we are breath in everything.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
God established patriarchy when he established the world. God established a patriarchal world. If we're going to have true reformation in America,… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
You see, feminists don't really like to define the Patriarchy. They prefer to keep it nebulous and amorphous so they can conveniently… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The poet doesn’t know what the poem, finally, will be “about” when he uses the word’s etymology as a starting point before… — Natasha Sajé Copy Share Image
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“The misrepresentation of God as strictly male has wounded women in every area of their lives. Women are raped, abused, molested, trafficked… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“Why should women have to give up their name upon marriage, as if they are nothing but hood ornaments to their husbands!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization. To apprehend one-self as victim is to be aware of an alien and hostile force outside… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
“Mistress?” the leader would say. “Do not tell me that such a beauty as yourself dwells all alone?” “Oh, yes,” I would… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the… — Asma Barlas Copy Share Image
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
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