If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end — Maria Mies 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
I faced a lot of opposition from my family and I battled patriarchy. — Mallika Sherawat Copy Share Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary." — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. — Charlotte Bunch 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
... 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
I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
True Equality is what we seek. Perpetual peace, and an end to the Lies of the Patriarchy. The Culture of Misogyny will… — Krista The Femitheist Copy Share Image
We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“[Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection… — Kate Millett 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
“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“There's an innocent displacement, a dreaming, and idols are perfect for a little girl's dreaming. They aren't real. They aren't the gas… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I experience Mormondom to be a warm and beautiful and well-appointed home in which you suddenly find you're in a Patriarchy Funhouse… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.” — Lady Sophia Fermor 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 is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
![“[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.” quote by Ava DuVernay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/ava-duvernay-4018_built_hollywood-is-a-patriarchy-headed-by-men_308720.jpg)
![“[Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.” quote by James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/james-boswell-7136_dr-johnson_dr-johnson-thought-that-men-know-that-wo_2655423.jpg)
