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
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I think that what we need is a balance between men and women. I don't believe in the value of the matriarchy… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Only a revolution of values...will end male violence, and that revolution will necessarily be based on a love ethic. To create loving… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, our over-emphasis on the male as oppressor often obscures the fact that men too are victimized. To be an oppressor is… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless… — Alasdair Gray 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
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Those who claim that any woman can reprogram her consciousness if only she is sufficiently determined hold a shallow view of the… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It… — Allan G. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Women Ain't Hood Ornament (The Sonnet) Why should women have to give up, Their name when they get married, As if they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
“(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to triumph; any… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,… — Phyllis Chesler 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
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
“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our… — Lady Sophia Fermor 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
“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
“(...) 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
“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside… — Anonymous 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
“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
“I know all women are supposed to be strong enough now to strangle presidents and patriarchies between their powerful thighs, but it… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
![“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak enough in general, to suffer their sense to be led away captive, by such half-thinking retailers of sentences. Among whom, This in particular, was he worth the pains, might be easily…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/592/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_i-shou-d-not-myself-have-thought-cato-wo_183319.jpg)
![“If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests…” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60b/eve-ensler-1402_attention_if-you-look-at-capitalism-and-patriarchy_1377185.jpg)
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