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Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society. -- Marie Brennan
My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it. -- Mason Cooley
A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph. -- Dorothy Thompson
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board. -- J. B. Priestley
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university -- Camille Paglia
Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey. -- Roseanne Barr
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery , the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritrocracy, theocracy, oligarchy, governments, patriarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, protection rackets, intimidation by gangsters, and every other kind of coercive institution. In other words, anarchism opposes government in all it's forms. -- Donald Rooum
Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders. -- Alexander McCall Smith
When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America. -- Sergio Leone

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