“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
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
Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, because possession empowered them… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the… — Bell Hooks 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it, — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes with boys that the tyranny of patriarchy has had a much more devastating blow on boys than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You know, we live in this kind of patriarchy, and women feel as a result that they have to be the passive… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
“Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I glance down to what I'm wearing. A crop top, a skirt - it's hot, and it made sense to me. I… — Kyle Labe 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
“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically… — Ani DiFranco 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
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
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen 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
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy is itself the prevailing religion of the entire planet, and its essential message is necrophilia. All of the so-called religions legitimating… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“It’s everywhere: a system of thought and a set of invented and discriminatory practices in our laws, culture and economy that feminists… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being,… — Maysoon Zayid 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
“My father despises cats. He believes them to be Democrats. He considers them to be little mean hillary clintons covered all over… — Patricia Lockwood 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
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