362 Quotes About Patriarchy

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

They will tell you home is safe zone.No, bitch face is safe zone.Bitch face is home.Bitch face is cutting off the ladder,willing to burn in the apartment,if it means he can't get in.

Feminists have often highlighted the “otherness” of nonhuman animals while highlighting similarities between women and the men who hold power. Biologically speaking, any two humans will bemore similar than a human and any other species. But the position of most women in patriarchal societies is closer to that of chickens and cows than it is to that of the men who hold power.

The same patriarchy that oppresses women oppresses nonhuman animals. Farmed animals and “housewives,” “lab” animals and prostitutes, dancing bears and girls in the sex trade—all have too long been exploited by the same patriarchal hierarchy wherein the comparatively weak are exploited for the benefit of the powerful.

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'.

There's always somebody who wants to be the Big Man, and take everything for themselves, and tell everybody how to think and what to do. When, actually, it's he who is weak. But if the Big Men see that you see that they are weak they have no choice but to destroy you. That is the real tragedy.

What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day.

It may not be right,” Aalea said. “It may not be just. But this is aworld of senators and consuls and Luminatii—of republics and cults andinstitutions built and maintained almost entirely by men. And in it, loveis a weapon. Sex is a weapon. Your eyes? Your body? Your smile?” Sheshrugged. “Weapons. And they give you more power than a thousandswords. Open more gates than a thousand war walkers. Love has toppledkings, Mia. Ended empires. Even broken our poor, sunsburned sky.

What she was coming to realize, but what no woman was allowed to utter aloud, was that there was no guarantee your child would be adequate compensation for the life you gave up to have it. More and more, life looked an awful lot like a hoax perpetrated on women and designated to further men’s lives at the expense of their own.