362 Quotes About Patriarchy

The patriarchal theory of evolution, no matter how refined and intellectualized is nothing but an apology for racism, sexism, and what we term "androcentrism", defined as an erroneous conception of nature that places man at the centre of creation and denies non-human (and indeed, non-masculine) beings their particular spirituality and their equality in relation to life's balance.

Men are called to start building their relationship with their feminine spirit in order to reverse the damage that has been caused to the masculine and feminine energy through patriarchy. The only way for us to do this, as men, is to start moving closer to the inner feminine part of our male personality.

I like domestic stuff,"he tells me, his voice falling to a sudden romance-novel huskiness. So fuck a butler. Men, it bears repeating, are so weird.

I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant being confronted with every possible kind ofobstacle and discrimination. It meant being told that if you want to race with men, you’d have to do it with your hands and legs cut off. I started to wish I had been born somewhere—anywhere—else.

A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.

If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.