Best Patriarchal Sayings
92 Patriarchal quotes by 62 unique authors
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The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious…
— Gloria Steinem
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The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised…
— Shirin Ebadi
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world,…
— Audre Lorde
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I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly…
— George R. R. Martin
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I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I…
— Alanis Morissette
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When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet -…
— Alanis Morissette
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban…
— Salman Rushdie
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has…
— Lillian Smith
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It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset…
— James Wolcott
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What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which…
— Germaine Greer
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The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a…
— Bell Hooks
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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses…
— Bell Hooks
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as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master…
— Bell Hooks
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Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that…
— Bell Hooks
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I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal…
— Cornel West
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Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in…
— Bell Hooks
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Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
— Bell Hooks
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We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.
— Bell Hooks
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No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women…
— John Green
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