« All Patriarchal Quotes · Jeffrey Eugenides's Page
Patriarchal Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 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…
- Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
More Patriarchal Quotes
- Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and… — Roseanne Barr
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that… — Isabel Allende
- I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a… — 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… — Adrienne Rich
- To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any… — 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… — 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,… — Bharati Mukherjee
- The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely… — 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,… — 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… — Barbara G. Walker