Male Domination Quotes

#1. Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

Bell Hooks

#2. Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

Mariah Nelson

#3. If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

Bell Hooks

#4. Lakshmi massages Vishnu's feet. Is this male domination? Kali stands on Shiva's chest. Is this female domination? Shiva is half a woman. Is this gender equality? Why then is Shakti never half a man?

Devdutt Pattanaik

#5. Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

Bell Hooks

#6. Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

Pierre Bourdieu

#7. In our nation masses of people are concerned about violence but resolutely refuse to link that violence to patriarchal thinking or male domination. Feminist thinking offers a solution. And it is up to us to make that solution available to everyone.

Bell Hooks

#8. Today small boys and young men are daily inundated with a poisonous pedagogy that supports male violence and male domination, that teaches boys that unchecked violence is acceptable, that teaches them to disrespect and hate women.

Bell Hooks

#9. It's the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

Somi Ekhasomhi

#10. I myself have no objection to comfort so long as it does not interfere with more important activities.

Elizabeth Peters

#11. What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

#12. Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.

Lance Henriksen

#13. Leadership is Idealism in Action.

Sathya Sai Baba

#14. I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Alice Walker

#15. I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.

Margaret Atwood

#16. If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

Bell Hooks

#17. This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

Anthony De Mello

#18. The way religion makes thousands believe is itself a miracle.

M.F. Moonzajer

#19. Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

Andrea Dworkin

#20. Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It's wrong.

Cathy Burnham Martin