Quotes About Patriarchy

In our country we use different words [than feminism] which mean the liberation or the emancipation of women. Of course I believe in the emancipation of women. It will change a lot of things in society for the better. But, you know, the class patriarchal system under which we live oppresses men too and the discrimination from which women suffer is not good for the life of men. Don't you think so?

Saya tahu bahwa profesiku ini telah diciptakan oleh lelaki, dan bahwa lelaki menguasai dua dunia kita, yang di bumi ini dan di alam baka. Bahwa lelaki memaksa perempuan menjual tubuh mereka dengan harga tertentu, dan bahwa tubuh yang paling murah dibayar adalah tubuh sang istri. Semua perempuan adalah pelacur dalam satu atau lain bentuk. Karena saya seorang yang cerdas, saya lebih menyukai menjadi seorang pelacur yang bebas daripada menjadi seorang istri yang diperbudak.

I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another. Because I was intelligent I preferred to be a free prostitute, rather than an enslaved wife.

To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare walls for a while. It means learning how not to be afraid of the ghosts which assume the color of the bare wall.

While across patriarchies a common response is to view women as dangerous antagonists to be subdued, [Sudhir] Kakar says the 'defensive mode' of Indian male fantasy takes a specific form - that of 'desexualization, either of the self or of the woman', the former through celibacy and ascetic longings, and the latter through transforming the woman into either a maternal automation or an 'androgynous virgin

Men's healing is in women's interest, though for women that healing will mean accepting on some level not only that men are—here is the dreaded word—victims of the patriarchy, too, but (and this will be the hardest part to swallow) that women have been codeterminers in the system, at times as invested and active as men themselves in making and keeping men in their role.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

To a narrative therapist, there are few interactions between couples that are not influenced by patriarchy. If there is an abuse of power in a relationship, a narrative therapist would view the responsibility for the abuse of power as lying in the hands of the person abusing the power. A narrative approach would invite the abuser to Recognize the abuse as abuse. Position himself against it. Accept total responsibility for stopping it.

the exclusive imagining of God as male has deeply wounded women. Our immersion in these images convinced us that we are excluded from the divine, that we are inferior to men, that we are in need of a male savior, and that to name and imagine God in any other way than he has always been known is blasphemy.

Historically and still today, men of many cultures have sought to transcend their own bodies while reducing women and animals to their body parts. Seeing themselves as more rational and self-determined, men claim the right to rule over those they see as more emotional, impulsive, and bound to bodily rhythms. Reduced to their bodies, women and animals are liable to be made into meat either literally, as in butchery, or figuratively, as in pornography.

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.