Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
I can hear the roar of women's silence.
A kshatriya woman's highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons.
Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes.
To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.
Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.
Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.
Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?
It has been races of marrying men that have made the heroic epochs In human history.
