Patriarchal Culture Quotes

#1. Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.

Shirin Ebadi

#2. I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

Kim Hyesoon

#3. We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Alan Ball

#4. Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.

Allan G. Johnson

#5. Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

Shirin Ebadi

#6. So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously.

Erin Wunker

#7. Ari had discovered a contraband Barbie bangle in her weekend case and had gone on an hour's rant that contained words like 'body fascism' and 'third-wave feminism', then made Ellie write out fifty times, 'Barbie is a toxic plastic tool of a patriarchal culture.

Sarra Manning

#8. As females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing
yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Bell Hooks

#9. Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty - stupid me for going along with it.

Marni Bates

#10. We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

Bell Hooks

#11. The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.

William Shakespeare

#13. So much for you to learn, Empress. Beware the inactivated card." One Arcana's powers lay dormant - until he or she killed another player. "Who is it?" "Don't ask, if you ever want to know.

Kresley Cole

#14. Life in Christ is far richer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

John Bradshaw

#16. A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Plautus

#17. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances. "I

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was.

V.C. Andrews

#19. To live in happiness, dream happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Showing aggression is the simplest way to assert patriarchal manhood. Men of all classes know this. As a consequence, all men living in a culture of violence must demonstrate at some point in their lives that they are capable of being violent.

Bell Hooks

#21. The public forgot Bofors, soon they will forget this as well

Sushilkumar Shinde

#22. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Bell Hooks

#23. The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Salman Rushdie