362 Quotes About Patriarchy

When they (the men, the scavengers)come for you, do not give yourselfto them so easily.Wear your strength like armour,fight like a beast.Do not let them tell you thatyou belong to them.Be fearless.Be a lion.Be like lava.Rip them apart,and burn their bones.And when you are done,tell the world that you belong to no man.That you are a lady,a warrior,a tsunami, and you belong only to yourself.

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

True women empowerment will occur only as a result, not of the disempowerment of men, but of the stopping of our caring about the kind of genitals a person has, except when it comes to things such as reproduction and the use of public toilets.

There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.

Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.

there have been so many timesi have seen a man wanting to weepbut insteadbeat his heart until it was unconscious.

I understand,' said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.

Most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.