Patriarchal Quotes

92 quotes by 63 authors

Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on… — Roseanne Barr
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it… — Roseanne Barr
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five… — Isabel Allende
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I… — Isabel Allende
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that… — Adrienne Rich
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit… — Truman G. Madsen
To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. Often Patriarchal blessings tell us the gifts we have received and declare… — Robert D. Hales
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did,… — Bharati Mukherjee
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the… — Carol P. Christ
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser
We may not know when or how the Lord's answers will be given, but in His time and His way, I testify, His answers will… — Robert D. Hales
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is… — Barbara G. Walker
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal… — Ellen Page
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have… — Germaine Greer
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I donâ€™t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a… — Ellen Page
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains… — Merlin Stone
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong… — Margaret Mead
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a… — Julia Serano
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days.… — Ira Reiss

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