Quotes About Patriarchy

The main pillar of every organised religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group.

The affirmation of female power contained in the Goddess symbol has both psychological and political consequences. Psychologically, it means the defeat of the view engendered by patriarchy that women's power is inferior and dangerous. This new 'mood' of affirmation of female power also leads to new 'motivations' it supports and undergirds women's trust in their own power and the power of other women in family and society.

Religious symbol systems focused around exclusively male images of divinity create the impression that female power can never be fully legitimate.

The original pact is a sexual as well as a social contract: it is sexual in the sense of patriarchal – that is, the contract establishes men's political right over women – and also sexual in the sense of establishing orderly access by men to women's bodies.

The most dramatic example of the public aspect of patriarchal right is that men demand that women's bodies are for sale as commodities in the capitalist market; prostitution is a major capitalist industry.

As parent and child advocate Anna McDonnell says, "To have a child is to have the chance to revisit your own childhood and self, and sometimes to make changes that have been needed for a long while." Trained for decades to interact with men in ways that serve the patriarchy, the new mother must answer to no man if doing so might place her or her child at risk.

He was a father in those happy and balmy days for fathers, when they and their wishes were immediately obeyed, when they were the ostensible focal point of the family's existence and their commands were never ignored.

El patriarcado es un juez que nos juzga por nacer y nuestro castigo es la violencia que no ves. Es femicidio. Impunidad para mi asesino. Es la desaparición. Es la violación. Y la culpa no era mía, ni dónde estaba ni como vestía. El violador eras tú.

They are more interesting than most men, but that does not affect the reality: they live in an unyielding patriarchy. To begin with, a woman's work or intellect isn't respected; we must work twice as hard as any man to earn half the recognition

Since when has a man not beaten his wife? If he doesn't beat her, it's either because he doesn't love her or because he isn't a real man. Since when is a man's paycheck or the fruit of the earth or what the chickens lay shared between them, when everybody knows he is the one in charge? Since when has a woman ever done the same things as a man? Besides, she was born with a wound between her legs and without balls, right, Senora Clara?

Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.

All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.

Es necesario despenalizar el aborto, es decir, que no se castigue. Eso es diferente a legalizarlo, porque las leyes las impone el patriarcado y al legalizarlo el poder queda en manos de jueces, policías, políticos y otras estructuras masculinas. Como un paréntesis, puedo agregar que por la misma razón las trabajadoras sexuales no desean la legalización de la prostitución, sino la despenalización.

El patriarcado es pétreo. El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.

Patriarchy is imposed with aggression; it demands obedience and punishes those who defy it.

Procuró atribuir su malestar al momento del sermón del padre Restrepo cuando la apuntó para referirse a los fariseos que pretendían legalizar a los bastardos y al matrimonio civil, desarticulando a la familia, la patria, la propiedad y la Iglesia, dando a las mujeres la misma posición que a los hombres, en abierto desafío a la ley de Dios

Respect, compliance, and fear, which are instilled in women from infancy, are so detrimental to us that we don't even know our own power. So great is that power, the patriarchy's goal is to crush it by any means, including the worst forms of violence. These methods are so successful that frequently the most rabid defenders of the patriarchy are women.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

How can a man who has killed five men in a battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their family number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.

One of the other musicians said that the tambourine is a female due to the fact that it makes a pretty jingle and is designed to be spanked. That is the more recent, patriarchal attitude, I suppose.

In order to describe and explore these questions I needed 1) to examine the definition of paradise, 2) to delve into the power of colorism, 3) to dramatize the conflict between patriarchy and matriarchy, and 4) disrupt racial discourse altogether by signaling then erasing it.

How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.