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92 Patriarchal quotes by 62 unique authors

Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside… — Luce Irigaray
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I think that’s really simplistic.… — Todd Haynes
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters,… — Sheila Jeffreys
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs… — Carol J. Adams
Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural… — Donna J. Haraway
In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness… — Sonia Johnson
Knowing her we will know that we are her divine children in a relationship of complete, unconditionally loving intimacy; we will know that nature is… — Andrew Harvey
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but… — Mary Cheney
Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and… — Bell Hooks
God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being… — Rosemary Radford Ruether
For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power… — Audre Lorde
Patriarchal life, you’re out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way! — Planningtorock
Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to… — Bell Hooks
All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war. — George Carlin
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal… — Patty Griffin
My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see you as the… — James E. Faust
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. — Elizabeth Hardwick
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do… — Susan Powter
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more… — Susan Powter
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. — Carol P. Christ
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his… — Laura Mulvey
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever… — Bell Hooks
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human… — Gore Vidal
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the… — Karl Marx

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