Arrangements Quote by Kate Millett

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed;…

— Aristotle

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

“Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why were the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its…

— Riane Eisler

“The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over the woman,…

— Frederick Engels

there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either…

— Riane Eisler

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

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

— Vandana Shiva

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

“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

“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing a killed…

— Daron Acemoğlu