Patriarchal Society Quotes

There are certain restrictive parts of a woman’s constitution that that were given her by nature and which forbid us from applying the same standard of expectation to women as to men.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Marriage has ever been a one-sided matter, resting most unequally upon the sexes. By it, man gains all- woman loses all; tyrant law and lust reign supreme with him- meek submission and ready obedience alone befit her.

Man is the organizer of life, woman is his organ for carrying out plans.

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

When I was 14 my mum told my chemistry teacher she thought it was a waste of time girls going to university because they'd only just get married. I remember being so angry with her.

Treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Saudi women far outnumber their male counterparts on university campuses but are reduced to watching men far less qualified control every aspect of their lives.

Moslem fundamentalists use 7th century customs to keep 21st century women in line.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Whoever has a daughter, and does not bury her alive, or scold her, or prefer his male children to her, may God bring him into paradise

I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.