Ifs Quote by Nicole Brossard

“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 is having the power to name.

— Kate Zambreno

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

— Shoojit Sircar

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

— Mary Robinson

“Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men and women…

— Joan D. Chittister

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 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

“There is plenty of work that needs to be done by men to dismantle patriarchy”

— Malebo Sephodi

... 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 impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or…

— Roseanne Barr

“Patriarchy is not God's dream for humanity.”

— Sarah Bessey

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

— Dalma Heyn