Nature Quote by Rosemary Radford Ruether

“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

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real…

— Audre Lorde

...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

“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

“Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate’s nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For…

— Anonymous

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body…

— Whitney Chadwick

“The voice of women and the voice of nature have been muted under patriarchy. Women and nature are considered objects under patriarchy, and objects…

— Marti Kheel

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating…

— Andrea Dworkin

“Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is…

— Asma Barlas

“While we’re defining things, let’s take a moment for feminism: “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the political, economic, and social…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture…

— Bell Hooks

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out…

— Laura Mulvey