Male Patriarchy Quotes

#1. What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

Bell Hooks

#2. Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.

Philippa Gregory

#3. Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.

Andrea Dworkin

#4. Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Mabel Osgood Wright

#5. There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of her, she wanted to think of the future. Wanted him to wrap his arms round her. Kiss her. Tell her it would be all right.

LaVerne St. George

#6. 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

#7. To take the inherent positive sexuality of males and turn it into violence is the patriarchal crime that is perpetuated against the male body, a crime that masses of men have yet to possess the strength to report.

Bell Hooks

#8. You gonna jump on-line and tell your geek squad you landed me?

Kristen Ashley

#9. 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

#10. Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

Chuck D

#11. Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about the nature of male and female roles can be solved by women's working harder.

Bell Hooks

#12. As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.

Allan G. Johnson

#13. At the center of the way black male selfhood is constructed in white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is the image of the brute - untamed, uncivilized, unthinking, and unfeeling.

Bell Hooks

#14. The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

John Kuypers

#15. Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom of will, it is difficult for any man of any class to rebel against patriarchy, to be disloyal to the patriarchal parent, be that parent female or male.

Bell Hooks

#16. Boys need healthy self-esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them. If that were so they would all be well.

Bell Hooks

#17. Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. I don't know how we're going to have this baby because I'm in my forties and I can't even remember my first son's name. But I'm going to have another baby because I'm feeling good.

Sherri Shepherd

#19. I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

Najib Mikati

#20. If poetry is outta style then I wish to bring it back

Justin Bienvenue

#21. I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It's gorgeous.

Danny Trejo

#22. Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

Andrea Dworkin

#23. Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Bell Hooks