Patriarchy Quotes
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If you want to fight patriarchy but won't fight religion, you're not fighting patriarchy.
— Ali A. Rizvi
The Koran did not invent or introduce patriarchy.
— Muhammad Khalid Masud
Men did not need to have balls to have balls.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly
— Sally Kempton
And the answer is, of course, "Ugh, patriarchy.
— Emily Nagoski
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.
— John Lamb Lash
Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
— Gertrude Stein
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
— Charlotte Bunch
Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)
— Carolina De Robertis
We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
— Alanis Morissette
Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.
— Jane Fonda
How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?
— Malebo Sephodi
Being a girl in this world means being afraid. That fear'll keep you safe. It'll keep you alive.
— Meredith Russo
But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.
— Sue Monk Kidd
I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.
— Meredith Russo
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.
— Bell Hooks
By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.
— Shereen El Feki
If patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
— Nicole Brossard
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
— Germaine Greer
She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.
— Rabih Alameddine
Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.
— Germaine Greer
As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.
— Allan G. Johnson
They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.
— Michael Moorcock
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
— Toni Morrison
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
— Roxane Gay
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
— Germaine Greer
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
— Camille Paglia
The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.
— John Lamb Lash
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
— Andrea Dworkin
Misogyny was born of fear of women.
— Sarah B. Pomeroy
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Women need to do more. We need to find out what it is we're afraid of, and go beyond.
— Colette Dowling
Patriarchy is having the power to name.
— Kate Zambreno
Men have more to lose than their chains .
— Heidi Hartmann
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.
— Ani DiFranco
Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As
— Kate Millett
Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Patriarchy is not God's dream for humanity.
— Sarah Bessey
In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy.
— Marilyn French
Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women.
— Anand Neelakantan
If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.
— Joan Slonczewski
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.
— Peter Block
Peace in patriarchy is war against women.
— Maria Mies
She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them. — Robert Wrigley
It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.
— Camille Paglia
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
— Andrea Dworkin
There have been so many timesi have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious. — Nayyirah Waheed
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
— Camille Paglia
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.
— Isabel Allende
Patriarchy has no gender.
— Bell Hooks