Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure… — Timothy Morton 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
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long… — Kate Millett 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
Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall,… — Angelica Ross Copy Share Image
“The Dieter's Daughter Mom's got this taco guy's poem taped to the fridge, some ode to celery, which she is always eating.… — Anita Endrezze 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 symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
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
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
“[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
I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“The secret of her success was playing the same game men played for centuries—projecting their weakness and inadequacy onto the other gender,… — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
“The axiomatic thing about Saudi society is that while there are a seemingly infinite number of rules, it is also possible for… — Manal al-Sharif 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
“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
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
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
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
There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and… — Mark Durie 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
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“To step outside of patriarchal thought means overcoming the deep-seated resistance within ourselves toward accepting ourselves and our knowledge as valid. It… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed.… — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders… Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Even if feminists tear down the bogeyman patriarchy and dominate men in all areas of life, they still won't be happy because… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
“The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
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