Been Quote by Hanna Rosin

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

— Vandana Shiva

When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of…

— Kate Millett

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction,…

— Gloria Steinem

“The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run…

— Robert Jensen

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run…

— Gerda Lerner

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.

— Shoojit Sircar

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

— Gloria Steinem

“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.”

— Kate Millett

Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.”

— Audre Lorde

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

— Charles Fourier

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

— Camille Paglia