The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there. — Peter Block 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
“She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“You can try and stop boys all you want, but in this world they all have a mind of their own and… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
“It must be odd having a lover as a servant." Jack said. "You mean a servant as a lover." Violet said. "What… — Lev A.C. Rosen Copy Share Image
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks 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
The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by… — Wunmi Mosaku 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
Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and… — Audre Lorde 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
Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad… — Joanna Russ 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
Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
“We’re more than borrowed titles, more than shadows wearing rings – we are roots of all survival, we are breath in everything.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
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
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. — John Lamb Lash Copy Share Image
The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.” — Sue Monk Kidd 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
“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
![“Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The…” quote by Russell Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd2/russell-brand-1242_creative_where-those-two-energies-male-and-female_1745783.png)
