Patriarchy Quotes

82 Patriarchy quotes by 54 unique authors

When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time… — Kate Millett
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
Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy. — Nelly Kaplan
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women -… — Sonia Johnson
The enemy of feminism isnâ€™t men. Itâ€™s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy… — Justine Musk
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people… — Nawal El Saadawi
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of… — Robert Jensen
Peace in patriarchy is war against women. — Maria Mies
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men… — Ashley Judd
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in… — Carol Gilligan
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h… — Mary Daly
How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...? — Dalma Heyn
Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against… — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It… — Eve Ensler
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
I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not… — Raquel Cepeda
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. — Cornel West
The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy. — John Lamb Lash

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