362 Quotes About Patriarchy

How should we know what they're guilty of or not? says Mariche. But we do know, says Ona. We do know that the conditions of Molotschna have been created by man, that these attacks have been made possible, even the conception of these acts, the planning of these attacks, the rationale for these attacks within the minds of the men, because of the circumstances of Molotschna. And those circumstances have been created and ordained by the men, by the elders and by Peters.

The patriarchy hurts everyone. And patriarchy isn't rule by men. It's rule by fathers. Most men will never be the fathers. They're just sons, and sons gets sacrificed to keep the old man in port and cigars

I find it curious that she hasn't been excommunicated. Are her small acts of rebellion a convenient outlet for Peters, a type of performance that satisfies the colonists' need to assert themselves, and that allows Peters to act with impunity on a larger scale?

-Pues casarse es...ponerse un vestido blanco y retratarse con un señor.-Calla Mila (...) te callas...¡Las niñas comen y callan!

Flanked as they are by busts of the governors before them and loomed over by all those names along the walls, I feel generations of men who have kept women from their schools staring me down. Men like this never die—they’re chiseled in marble and erected in these halls.

La nena segunda [de los Kent] debía ser ahijada de los Anderson, y no lo es por no ser varón. La mamá les había prometido un niño, que se llamaría Douglas, como míster Anderson... y nació una niña.-¡A veces la cigüeña se equivoca! dice riendo.Ni una sonrisa de míster Kent, que vuelve a llenar su pipa.

ALL THE STORIES ABOUT GODHOOD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MEN. HOW, THEN, ARE THE TO BE BELIEVED? LESS HAVING FAITH IN A HIGHER POWER, THAN HAVING FAITH IN MEN TO NOT MISTYPE

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Once established, the young girl's dependency is systematically supported as she proceeds through childhood. For being "nice" - nonchallenging, nonconfronting, noncomplaining - she's rewarded with good grades, the approval of her parents and teachers, and the affection of her peers. What reason is there for her to turn deviant or nonconformist? The going is good, so she conforms. Increasingly, she patterns herself after what's expected of her.