Patriarchy Quotes

82 Patriarchy quotes by 54 unique authors

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. — Camille Paglia
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever… — Bell Hooks
It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would… — Gloria Steinem
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the… — Ani DiFranco
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised… — Jane Fonda
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black… — Bell Hooks
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by… — Bell Hooks
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. — Kate Millett
I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet… — Michael Eric Dyson
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. — Sue Monk Kidd
Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the… — Sue Monk Kidd
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination… — Bell Hooks
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal… — Cornel West
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully)… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in… — Bell Hooks
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be… — Bell Hooks
Patriarchy has no gender. — Bell Hooks
I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm,… — Winona LaDuke
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… — Adrienne Rich
She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the… — Zadie Smith
This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss.… — Bell Hooks
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. — Adrienne Rich
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules… — Gloria Steinem
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with… — Hanna Rosin

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