Abandoned Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“The reason why women are abandoned has always been a puzzle to me, until I started realizing that it goes back to a hidden…

— Kent Lamarc

“It’s imperative that women throw off their conditioning and begin to stand in their own power. –Unplugging the Patriarchy”

— Lucia René

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

— Vandana Shiva

“The result of this one-sided patriarchal stance, demonstrable in all areas of life, is an un integrated man who is attacked by his repressed…

— Erich Neumann

The ideal woman is one that suffers quietly, dictates patriarchy.

— Reham Khan

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage.…

— Anonymous

“Assimilation of the feminine side is indeed a decisive problem in a man's individuation, but it remains his "private affair" since our patriarchal culture…

— Erich Neumann

When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression

— Sheila Jeffrys

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat…

— Christopher Lasch

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

— Madeline Brewer

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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