Admiration Quote by Timothy Morton

“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

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

“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

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract ideas of…

— Marcel Proust

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

— Peter Buffett

“So long as we refuse to accept that "woman" is a holistic concept, one that includes all people who experience themselves as women, our…

— Julia Serano

Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

“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

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day…

— Grace Paley