Patriarchy Quotes - Page 4

• The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

  John Lamb Lash

  Father, Hate, Tree

  John Lamb Lash (2006). “Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief”, p.237, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father--and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution--and just as dependent on each other.

  Hugh Nibley

  Father, Party, Independent

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• What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Change, Loss, Government

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• The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Father, Years

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.230, Zed Books

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• ... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

  Nicole Brossard

  Not Sure, Ifs

  Nicole Brossard (2005). “Fluid Arguments: Essays Written in French and English”, Mercury Press (Canada)

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• 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.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Xenophobia, Racism

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

  Starhawk

  War, Expression, Punishment

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• If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

  Tom Robbins

  Kissing, Men, Animal

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.285, Bantam

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• If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

  Maria Mies

  Ends, Ifs

  Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.38, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Marriage, Queens, Husband

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• Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.

  Frank Pittman

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Women, Rights, Religion

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• I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

  Carol Gilligan

  Daughter, Roles, Half

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• Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

  Sonia Johnson

  Believe, Men, Order

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• Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

  Nelly Kaplan

  Long, Gentleman, Ladies And Gentlemen

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• I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Dog, People, Community

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• Patriarchy has no gender.

  Bell Hooks

  Gender

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.142, Routledge

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• When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Self, Abandoned

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• Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Impact, Males

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.22, HarperCollins

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• Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Military, Government, Organization

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• The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Feels, Maleness

  Bell Hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, Washington Square Pr

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• I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.

  Germaine Greer

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

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• The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.

  Robert Jensen

  Patriotic, White, Logic

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• I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.

  Winona LaDuke

  Thinking, Feminist, Challenges

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• Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5488, Delphi Classics

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