Patriarchy Quotes

82 Patriarchy quotes by 54 unique authors

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
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. — John Lamb Lash
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. — Charlotte Bunch
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

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