Quote by Audre Lorde Download Open image ““Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.”” — Audre Lorde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from male politicians.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural,… — Evelyn Nakano Glenn Copy Share Image
“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to the whole… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“It makes me really sad that women have been ejected from the seat of their power in this society in terms of what happens… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...” — Carolyn G. Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“...I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help–except birthing babies...” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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 nearly run… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
