No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet,… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state.… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share… — Lady Sophia Fermor 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
“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“...patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency. Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“When Crimsworth praises Frances’s devoir and counsels her to cultivate her faculties, she replies not in words, but with a smile ‘in… — Claire Harman Copy Share Image
“It may be that in the long run, patriarchy has not been a successful adaptation and will lead to the extinction of… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.” — Mariam Khan Copy Share Image
“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end — Maria Mies 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
“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is… — Abhijit Naskar 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 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
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older,… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“The letting go of patriarchy which creates one-sided citizens of women and men alike and culminates in violent living and violent relationships.” — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And,… — Gloria Steinem 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 we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The curse that was laid upon Eve—her desire would be for her husband, and her pain in childbirth would be greatly multiplied—even… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of… — Ashley Judd 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
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
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