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Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world — Jane Caputi

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man — Virginia Woolf

The Koran did not invent or introduce patriarchy. — Muhammad Khalid Masud

The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame. — Laurie Penny

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

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

If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way — Eve Ensler

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

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually. — Jane Fonda

I un-gritted my teeth to speak. "I need no more proof of tyranny.""Our only desire is the wellbeing of the common man.""I am not a man. — Rod Duncan

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings. — Bell Hooks

Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread. — Linda Robinson

She was mined for the children
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them. — Robert Wrigley

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. — Roxane Gay

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. — Adrienne Rich

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

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become. — Germaine Greer

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women. — Germaine Greer

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating. — Germaine Greer

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. — Shereen El Feki

Agni was her brother and she loved him, and he often understood her, but he was a man. In the end he thought as a man thinks, of owning and mastering. — Judith Tarr

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 God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy. — John Lamb Lash

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become. — Rabih Alameddine

If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free. — Joan Slonczewski

Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted around women's wrists. — Sue Monk Kidd

If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling. — Judith Tarr

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded. — Jane Fonda

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

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

Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy. — Nelly Kaplan

Patriarchy is having the power to name. — Kate Zambreno

The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy. — Cheryl Clarke

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

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. — Kate Millett

In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy. — Marilyn French