History Quote by 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

“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

“It’s everywhere: a system of thought and a set of invented and discriminatory practices in our laws, culture and economy that feminists call the…

— Robert Webb

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

— Mary Robinson

“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women…

— Bell Hooks

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction,…

— Gloria Steinem

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

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

— Camille Paglia

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

“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about…

— Bell Hooks

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 a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

— Cornel West