Patriarchy Quotes

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

— Gertrude Stein

“Women ain't hood ornament.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Misogyny was born of fear of women.”

— Sarah B. Pomeroy

“Women are no sheep.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

— Maria Mies

Patriarchy has no gender.

— Bell Hooks

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

— Kate Zambreno

I faced a lot of opposition from my family and I battled patriarchy.

— Mallika Sherawat

“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”

— Germaine Greer

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

— Ava DuVernay

“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man”

— Virginia Woolf

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

— Maria Mies

“I’ll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy.”

— Meg SULLIVAN

“Men did not need to have balls to have balls.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than…

— Kate Millett

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win,…

— Isabel Allende

“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.”

— Mariam Khan

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

— Andrea Dworkin

“Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man…

— Anand Neelakantan

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”

— Virginia Woolf

Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on…

— Andrea Riseborough

“They will tell you home is safe zone. No, bitch face is safe zone. Bitch face is home. Bitch face is cutting…

— Olivia Gatwood

“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as…

— Germaine Greer

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in…

— Bell Hooks

“But I do have conversations about the Patriarchy and I am having them with gay men. At eighteen, I am discovering what…

— Caitlin Moran

“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten…

— Abhijit Naskar

In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And,…

— Gloria Steinem

“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is…

— Andrea Dworkin

“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

“Mistress?” the leader would say. “Do not tell me that such a beauty as yourself dwells all alone?” “Oh, yes,” I would…

— Madeline Miller

“My father despises cats. He believes them to be Democrats. He considers them to be little mean hillary clintons covered all over…

— Patricia Lockwood

“...enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the…

— bell hooks

“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

Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is…

— Bell Hooks

“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”

— Abhijit Naskar