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  • Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. -- Naomi Wolf
  • Women are a colonized people. -- Robin Morgan
  • For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion. -- Nancy Pearcey
  • Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women. -- Andrea Dworkin
  • In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own. -- Anita Loos
  • Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it. -- Andrea Dworkin
  • A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance. -- Stephanie Coontz
  • Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination. -- Sheila Jeffreys
  • It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex. -- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
  • There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy. -- Chuck D
  • All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later. -- Terence McKenna
  • According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women. -- Ana Castillo
  • Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. -- Frans de Waal
  • Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego. -- Joel Edgerton
  • Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. -- Andrea Dworkin
  • Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself. -- Sue Monk Kidd
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