Patriarchy Quotes
82 Patriarchy quotes by 54 unique authors
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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
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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
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Peace in patriarchy is war against women.
— Maria Mies
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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
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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
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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
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How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
— Dalma Heyn
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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
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Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
— Andrea Dworkin
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Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
— Bell Hooks
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.
— John Lamb Lash
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The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.
— John Lamb Lash
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Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the…
— Russell Brand
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This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to…
— Bell Hooks
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These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are.…
— Lierre Keith
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Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him…
— Hugh Nibley
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify…
— Audre Lorde
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There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality…
— Marilyn Frye
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Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
— Charlotte Bunch
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No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness.…
— Tobsha Learner
Who Wrote These Patriarchy Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 82 Patriarchy Quotes, led by these top contributors: