Patriarchy Quotes

82 quotes by 54 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
Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend… — Roseanne Barr
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing… — Roseanne Barr
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a… — Dennis Kucinich
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown… — Gloria Steinem
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do… — Toni Morrison
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past,… — Andrea Dworkin
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid… — Adrienne Rich
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. — Roxane Gay
The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy. — Cheryl Clarke
Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the… — Chuck D
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such… — Asma Barlas
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it, — Bell Hooks
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant… — Ryan Gosling
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. — Andrea Dworkin
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my… — Heather Hart
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt… — Bell Hooks
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its… — Gerda Lerner
The word â€˜sinâ€™ is derived from the Indo-European root â€˜es-,â€™ meaning â€˜to be.â€™ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person]… — Mary Daly

Who Wrote These Patriarchy Quotes

54 authors contributed a total of 82 Patriarchy Quotes, led by these top contributors: