Dad Quote by Katherine Ryan

My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and…

— Torii Hunter

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish…

— Jonathan Anderson

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

— Mason Cooley

Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't…

— Roseanne Barr

“When The Woman is King (Sonnet) When the woman is king, no mother goes without leave, no dreamer goes without choice, no queer goes…

— Abhijit Naskar

“We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.”

— Vivian French

“The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women…

— Sergio Leone

Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through…

— Hanna Rosin

In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what I've noticed...…

— Gavin McInnes

“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the maternal gens,…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Back in Seven Trees, the remaining local males are hard at work. Some have fled, but most of the evacuees are female. Males are…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky