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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes. -- Gertrude Stein
I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit. -- Caitlin Moran
Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way! -- Planningtorock
... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham which leadeth to a Celestial Glory... for whosoever doeth those things shall be damned Saith the Lord. -- Wilford Woodruff
We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men. -- Alan Ball
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. -- Gerrit Smith
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world. -- Warren Farrell
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems. -- John Bradshaw
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. -- Roseanne Barr
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. -- Salman Rushdie
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. -- Charles Eastman
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. -- Gloria Steinem
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. -- Carol P. Christ
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. -- Lillian Smith
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. -- Shirin Ebadi
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. -- bell hooks
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. -- Isabel Allende
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women. -- Susan Powter
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times. -- Mary Cheney
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. -- Ellen Willis
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom. -- Nawal El Saadawi
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. -- Alanis Morissette
It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. -- James Wolcott
I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate! -- Alanis Morissette
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. -- Isabel Allende
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have. -- Bharati Mukherjee
I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me. -- Patty Griffin
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. -- Roseanne Barr
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society. -- George R. R. Martin
God as 'He,' as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America, 'He, He, He.' Every time I hear that it's like another blow against females. It's very radical talk at this point for females to say this kind of stuff, but nationwide I still hear females referring to God as 'He.' -- Patty Griffin
Linear thinking is patriarchal. -- Meridel Le Sueur
It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman. -- Camille Paglia
You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me. -- John Green
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. -- Karl G. Maeser
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted. -- Gloria Steinem
All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war. -- George Carlin
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated. -- Mary Robinson
A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye. -- Marisa Tomei
In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent. -- Jim Goad
The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher. -- Cornel West
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about. -- Emily Ratajkowski
Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men. -- Marianne Williamson
Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world. -- Warren Farrell
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. -- bell hooks
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. -- Carol P. Christ
Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? -- bell hooks
The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation. -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. -- bell hooks
Your patriarchal blessing is your passport to peace in this life. It is a Liahona of light to guide you unerringly to your heavenly home. -- Thomas S. Monson
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. -- Kate Middleton
It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with challenging, alternative views. -- Hazel Henderson
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself. -- Petra Kelly
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal. -- Vandana Shiva
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression? -- John Green
I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit. -- Alanis Morissette
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. -- Charles Eastman
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word? -- Ellen Page
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me. -- Patty Griffin
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. -- Audre Lorde
Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men. -- bell hooks
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it. -- Germaine Greer
I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together. -- Kim Hyesoon

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