Habit Quote by Kate Millett

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

— Shoojit Sircar

“It may be that in the long run, patriarchy has not been a successful adaptation and will lead to the extinction of the species.…

— 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…

— Robert Jensen

... 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 is having the power to name.

— Kate Zambreno

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

— Peter Buffett

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an…

— Gloria Steinem

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and…

— Ashley Judd

I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to…

— Ani DiFranco

Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.

— Mary Robinson

Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior…

— Bell Hooks