Patriarchy Quotes - Page 6

• Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

  Vandana Shiva

  Responsibility, Rights, Leaving

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.

  Manning Marable

  Perspective, Long, Black

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• I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Long, Balance

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• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that is sanctioned both socially and aesthetically. The male hero and acts of heroism require violence. Everyone is okey dokey with that. We are only beginning to see that constricting set of truths open up a little.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Hero, Men, Violent Acts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.

  Cheryl Clarke

  Lovers

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• Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

  Chuck D

  Queens, Rap, Humble

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases.

  Asma Barlas

  Feminist, Intellectual, Wish

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• The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Self, Feminist, Movement

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• You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.

  Ryan Gosling

  Self, Expression, Support

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• At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my fate as a woman to other victims throughout the ages.

  Heather Hart

  Writing, Fate, Class

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• Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

  Bell Hooks

  White, Feminist, Ease

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• 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'.

  Mary Daly

  Roots, Etymology, Sin

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• When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.

  Kate Millett

  Civilization, Two, Long

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• Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mother, Husband, Acceptance

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• The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

  Shereen El Feki

  Egypt, Alive, World

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• If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Focus, Males

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Father, Real, Journey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Feminist, Looks, Wave

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• God established patriarchy when he established the world. God established a patriarchal world. If we're going to have true reformation in America, it is because men once again, if I may use a worn out expression, have righteous testosterone flowing through their veins. They are not afraid of the contempt of their contemporaries. They are not here to get along. They are not even here to take issue. They are here to take over!

  Randall Terry

  Men, Expression, America

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• I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of war itself which is largely a large load of bullshit.

  Roseanne Barr

  War, Law, Bullshit

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar to Mormonism - it's any patriarchy that I think stops, thwarts, or denies our creativity.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creativity, Thinking, Peculiar

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

  Ani DiFranco

  Balance, Fundamentals, Addresses

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• There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.

  Mark Durie

  Past, Overcoming, Needs

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. Randa Abdel-Fattah.

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