362 Quotes About Patriarchy

Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.

Whether love last but one brief span of time or for eternity, it is the only creative, inspiring, elevating basis for a new race, a new world.

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the the culture defines it.