Dominance Quote by Andrea Dworkin

“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also…

— Allan G. Johnson

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

— Marilyn French

“Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

— Confucius

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

— Pierre Bourdieu

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men…

— Marilyn French

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still…

— Joan Severance

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

— Betty Friedan

“Dominance isn't about bossing a woman around. It's about showing her that she is so precious, he wants her to himself. That's a huge…

— Rick Johnson

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its…

— Riane Eisler

Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings…

— Ellen Willis

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

— Nancy Pearcey