Emotion Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in 'sadness,' 'joy,' or 'regret' . . . It oversimplifies feeling. I'd…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.”

— Daniel M. Ingram

Crucially, in Westeros, there's probably no space for a girlboss story, because it's a patriarchal culture that keeps women tightly restricted.

— Emma D'Arcy

The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks.

— Neale Donald Walsch

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees…

— bell hooks

“On the lowest level, this loss of soul turns the man into the hen-pecked husband who lives with his wife as though she were…

— Erich Neumann

“Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.”

— Allan G. Johnson

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

In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth.…

— Shabana Azmi

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with…

— Hazel Henderson