Matriarchy Quotes

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

We have a petticoat government. Mrs. Wilson is president.

We're a matrilineal society, as Pueblo women, and there are a lot of tribes across the country who are.

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

Born of woman, nourished by woman, wedded to woman, why do they revile woman? …. Why revile her that gives birth to kings amongst men

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.

I actually think women are stronger and more capable than men, that men are actually dancing in the palms of women, who are running the show.

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

When I think of a legacy, I think of the legacy of being a mom.

To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.

Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is women were the ones who were raising everybody, including men. And growing up with my mother, that was something I really learned to appreciate.

It wasn't that there weren't menfolk in my grandmother's stories. There were lots of them but they died young or were drifters and dreamers who disappeared or turned to drink or succumbed to melancholia or slow mortal diseases. The women, on the other hand, lived a long time and were full of spit and vinegar until the end.