362 Quotes About Patriarchy

Eventually, as men continue to spit antiquated perspectives into the faces of the majority gender, they will be reminded, rather loudly, that they never would have existed but for a woman.

If a man loves a girl who is in the first place young and inexperienced; who in the second place is educated with a background of caveman tradition, a middle-ground of poetry and romance, and a foreground of unspoken hope and interest all centering upon the one Event; and who has, furthermore, absolutely no other hope or interest worthy of the name - why, it is a comparatively easy manner to sweep her off her feet with a dashing attack.

Beauty's a curse when one lives among men

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.

Nothing sends patriarchy scuttling under covers of proprietyfaster than rambunctious peals of laughteremanating from rubicund lips

Jeg kunne mærke ilden inde i mig brænde igennem alle de barrierer, som mænd fra min kultur havde sat for os kvinder og piger.

Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why were the Aztecs and Incas patriarchal? It is far more likely that even though the precise definition of man and woman varies between cultures, there is some universal biological reason why almost all cultures valued manhood over womanhood. We do not know what this reason is; there are plenty of theories, none of the convincing.

I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here.

It’s an interesting idea, but I would challenge you to decide: Do you hate girls? Or do you hate the expectations put on girls by society?