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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
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. -- Ani DiFranco
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. -- Camille Paglia
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home. -- Gloria Steinem
Patriarchy has no gender. -- bell hooks
Patriarchy is having the power to name. -- Kate Zambreno
Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy. -- Nelly Kaplan
If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free. -- Joan Slonczewski
Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war. -- Starhawk
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. -- Charlotte Bunch
Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism. -- Peter Buffett
Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before. -- Kate Millett
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. -- Cornel West
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. -- Kate Millett
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
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. -- bell hooks
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? -- bell hooks
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature. -- Kate Millett
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. -- Ani DiFranco
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my fate as a woman to other victims throughout the ages. -- Heather Hart
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying. -- Gloria Steinem
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it. -- Roseanne Barr
Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it. -- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated. -- Starhawk
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous. -- Jane Fonda
Benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy. -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power -- Andrea Dworkin
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. -- Andrea Dworkin
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
In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying. -- Audre Lorde
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. -- Ashley Judd
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. -- Andrea Dworkin
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. -- bell hooks
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. -- Shereen El Feki
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine. -- Alanis Morissette
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions. -- Hanna Rosin
After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. -- Carol P. Christ
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. -- Nawal El Saadawi
So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy. -- Thomas Keneally
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
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off. -- Eve Ensler
I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus husband. In the sitcom world, it's almost a cliche that the women have the common sense, going back to 'The Honeymooners.' -- Jake Weber
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway. -- Shereen El Feki
I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home. -- Jodie Evans
Peace in patriarchy is war against women. -- Maria Mies
The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy. -- John Lamb Lash
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men. -- Ava DuVernay
The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy. -- Cheryl Clarke
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there. -- Peter Block
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. -- Ani DiFranco
If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end -- Maria Mies
How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...? -- Dalma Heyn
How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself? -- Dalma Heyn
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. -- John Lamb Lash
I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary." -- Ruth Wilson
Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered. -- Jane Fonda
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. -- Sue Monk Kidd
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it, -- bell hooks
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. -- Roxane Gay
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings. -- bell hooks
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. -- Camille Paglia
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. -- Nicole Brossard
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded. -- Jane Fonda
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. -- Gloria Steinem
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. -- bell hooks
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually. -- Jane Fonda
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. -- Adrienne Rich
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 -- Jane Caputi
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. -- Carol Gilligan
Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations. -- Cynthia Kauffman
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. -- Toni Morrison
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. -- Raquel Cepeda
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. -- Isabel Allende
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
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
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. -- Sonia Johnson
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. -- Timothy Morton
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose. -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of war itself which is largely a large load of bullshit. -- Roseanne Barr
There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy. -- Mark Durie
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases. -- Asma Barlas
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love. -- bell hooks
I feel sometimes with boys that the tyranny of patriarchy has had a much more devastating blow on boys than it has on anyone. Because they have literally been forced to disassociate from their hearts. -- Eve Ensler
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. -- Justine Musk
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive -- bell hooks

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