Myths Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“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 any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will come not…

— Naomi Wolf

“It’s a male myth about feminists that we hate sex.”

— Maude Lebowski

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

“Gender bias is so steeped in the culture, their results implied, that women were themselves discriminating against other women.”

— Angela Saini

“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

“That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that not all…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“And thus woman has been definitely established as the Other. Western mythology itself was a patriarchal construct; through its portrayal of woman as the…

— Doris Meyer

“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

“Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether