Quotes About Patriarchy

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

how GDP in fact imposed an ideology of applied patriarchy onto the measurement of economic progress, alongside many other limitations.

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.

When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

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.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchical i.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for.

we should be thinking more about the fault-lines and fractures that underlie dominant male discourse.

His supporters dubbed him pater patriae, or 'father of the fatherland', one of the most splendid and satisfying titles you could have in a highly patriarchal society.

In the political and theological realms we are still stuck on the merry-go-round of church and state, capitalism and communism, Christian or Jew, Catholic or Protestant. We seem incapable of envisioning anything other than the dualistic and tired stalemate of contemporary patriarchal polity...

If God is male, then the male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

The word 'sin' is derived from the Indo-European root 'es-,' meaning 'to be.' When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, 'to be' in the fullest sense is 'to sin'.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

We are aware that the gods of patriarchy are pale derivatives and reversals of ancient yet always Present Goddess(es). We suspect that phallocentric writers and artists who have even a glimmer of insight are sometimes made uncomfortable by their own state of deception. Those who have any awareness of the heinous crime of reversal which is patriarchy must be in a state of deep conflict and fear of...Her.

If God is male, then male is God.