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#patriarchal

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #patriarchal




I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.


Kate Clinton


#comedians #extremely #fact #gives #happy

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.


Charles Eastman


#clan #connection #constitutes #family #head

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.


James Wolcott


#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.


Carol P. Christ


#behind #growing #leaving #less #movement

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.


Carol P. Christ


#become #challenges #daughter #daughters #defend

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!


Alanis Morissette


#artists #back #being #days #dissing

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.


Alanis Morissette


#could #doing #else #entertainment #entertainment industry

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.


Gerrit Smith


#families #i #more #need #patriarchal

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.


Lillian Smith


#ancient #birth #born #borne #forgive

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.


Audre Lorde


#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define






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