Patriarchy Quotes
Patriarchy Quote of the day
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
Peace in patriarchy is war against women.
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?
Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.
I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.
We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
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
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.
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.
I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.
Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.
Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.
Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
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.
