Challenges Quote by Carol P. Christ

Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters'…

— Victoria Secunda

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if…

— Elizabeth Debold

“Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom…

— Bell Hooks

“Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess.…

— Natsuo Kirino

“A daughter is a gift from God and needs to be treasured, nurtured, and even protected by a father until another man comes along…

— Rick Johnson

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was…

— Shirin Ebadi

The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other…

— Frank Pittman

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim,…

— Andrea Dworkin

“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women…

— Bell Hooks

“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