“Let's commit ourselves to act like men - not like the men of our day who are preoccupied with money, with pleasure,… — Philip Lancaster Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you… — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I faced a lot of opposition from my family and I battled patriarchy. — Mallika Sherawat 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
“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
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
“Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular… — Mohammed Hanif 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
Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit… — Kate Middleton 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
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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 feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary." — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
