Patriarchy Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“In a world where masculinity is respected and femininity is regularly dismissed, it takes an enormous amount of strength and confidence for any person,…

— Julia Serano

“When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and…

— Jenny Nordberg

“I had great femme mentors, I had good role models of gentle men, I found ways to be a butch that did not require…

— S. Bear Bergman

“In short, women themselves absorb and transmit misogynistic values, just as men do. This is not a tidy world of tyrannical men and victimized…

— Anonymous

“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women…

— Rosalind Coward

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

“Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“101 Reasons why its great to be a woman: We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition.”

— Summersdale Publishers

“This led me very promptly to the conviction that those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“To be feminine is to allow yourself to be constantly FEELING into the sensual woman you were designed to be.”

— Lebo Grand

“...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology. For example, biologically and physiologically, women's bodies are seen as both…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression which this…

— Lady Sophia Fermor