362 Quotes About Patriarchy

Strong, happy, confident girls and women are breaking out culture's implicit rule that girls should be self-doubting, reserved, timid, and apologetic. Girls who are bold enough to break those rules irk us. Their brazen defiance and refusal to follow directions make us want to put them back into their cage.

I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel

As a group, men are dominant and privileged in relation to women. But as individuals, men pay a price for this privilege: to be considered 'real men', they have to live up to patriarchy's standards and abide by its rules. These standards and rules are regulated - through fear, control and violence - by other men.

and patriarchy deems all things feminine to be less intelligent.

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. There is an attempt at it in Diana of the Crossways. They are confidantes, of course, in Racine and the Greek tragedies. They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men.A Room of One's Own Chapter 5

Our anger at heteropatriarchy demands criminal and institutional punishment. But saying ‘fuck the patriarchy’ is hardly radical when this is followed by calling on patriarchal disciplinary power.

Elisabeth later always referred to this situation [her engagement and marriage] with great bitterness, saying, "Marriage is an absurd arrangement. One is sold as a fifteen-year-old child and makes a vow one does not understand and then regrets for thirty years or more, and which one can never undo again.""The Reluctant Empress", chapter 1

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Inclinéme a los estudiosDesde mis primeros añosCon tan ardientes desvelos,Con tan ansiosos cuidados,Que reduje a tiempo breveFatigas de mucho espacio.(...)