Quotes about Patriarch

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Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousa — Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirel — Jasmin Darznik, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be — bell hooks
Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist — bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love
Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, mo — Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life. — Beth Cohen
Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a wom — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each bles — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use — Ursula K. Le Guin
Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be eq — bell hooks
Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant being — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with he — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
Women are born to serve and breed, and when we fail at this, what else is there? What is it that we can do that men can' — Felicia C. Sullivan, Follow Me into the Dark
A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and mal — Allan G. Johnson, The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost wi — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athen — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to — Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence