Generation Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image “You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generation Patriarchy Years You
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms. — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“It may be that in the long run, patriarchy has not been a successful adaptation and will lead to the extinction of the species. As we look around the world at the threats to the ecosphere from unsustainable human systems deeply rooted in patriarchy’s domination/subordination dynamic, that’s not only plausible but increasingly likely. That suggests that patriarchy is an evolutionary… — Robert Jensen Copy Share
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
Phil is of a generation that probably would have been happier never getting married. He just doesn't want to get married again; it's not… — Jeanie Buss Copy Share Image
In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
If we turn our backs on the remaining industries and not reinvest in these places and just say 'You're on your own,' we will… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
I liked the generation of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, who I admired. I was a little bit jealous of Karel Poborsky who played… — Pavel Nedved Copy Share Image
Plainly, when perfusate from an organ or blood from an animal is used for superfusion, substances can reach the assay tissues within a few… — John Vane Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because… — Michael Kors Copy Share Image
I knew very little about 'Spider-Man'. I grew up more in the 'Superman' generation. 'Spider-Man' - I didn't know so much. But it is… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
As I predicted, young people who overwhelmingly didn't want Brexit have turned out in their droves and exacted revenge on a generation of Leavers… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
Don't do anything to upset the victimhood apple cart, because then young women may want to think for themselves, and the entire racket of… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
