Matriarchal Society Quotes

I lived with my mom and sister, so I'm more used to dealing with women.

Unlike the position of women in most other ancient civilizations, including that of Greece, the Egyptian woman seems to have enjoyed the same legal and economic rights as the Egyptian man-- at least in theory. This notion is reflected in Egyptian art and historical inscriptions

I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.

I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.

Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies.

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

In the Ukraine, contrary to the custom of all other nations, the husbands do not choose their wives, but are themselves chosen by their future consorts.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

The tribe that constitutes a woman its ruler will not find redemption.

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

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.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.

If it wasn't for women, I wouldn't be here. I'm a mamma's boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.

I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

I was perhaps lucky to be born in a single-parent home where my mother, Shirin Mohammed Ali, was the sole figure I revered. My father's absence in my life in my formative years exposed me to only one person, who was my source of learning the lessons of life. So to me, listening to a woman and her worldly view is almost automatic.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.