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#patriarchal

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I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.


George R. R. Martin


#additional #any #difficult #essentially #i

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

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

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

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.


Susan Powter


#authority #biggest #diminish #end #end result

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.


Susan Powter


#damaging #earth #eliminates #every #half

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.


Isabel Allende


#around #born #everyone #family #female






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