... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. — Gloria Steinem 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
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. — John Lamb Lash Copy Share Image
Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a… — Ariel Levy 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
“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think as more people get more aware, people get more defensive. And when I say that, I mean people who are… — Rowan Blanchard 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
“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“IT is enough for the Men to find a thing establish'd to make them believe it well grounded. In all countries we… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“there have been so many times i have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
“The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image