Patriarchy Quotes

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

I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and...

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husb...

The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domesticat...

he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he ne...

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subse...

Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently ...

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom th...

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

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

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as frie...

I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually ...

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's bo...

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care f...

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force ...

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who lov...

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world o...

The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, f...

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That mean...

The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated inse...

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied ...

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reac...

Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wi...

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

Emotional neglect lays the groundwork for the emotional numbing that helps boys feel better about be...

No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the ...

Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being,...

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do...

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to b...

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were in...

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone w...

The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safet...

Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive...

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or...

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or...

There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they...

What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'emp...

When feminist women told the world that patriarchy promotes woman-hating, the response was that femi...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it ...

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges agains...

One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...

Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code w...

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanze...

In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and was ready to endure a great deal of ...

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to ...

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independe...

The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotenc...

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

There is a small wooden viewing tower, and pamphlets from the State of Ohio, but they focus on facts...

In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious ...

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to f...

Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among...

Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, tha...

Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their...

The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent...

That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get...

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She ...

I've never seen or touched anything.""Can you explain then how you had children?""You're right. It's...

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this...