Quotes About Matriarchy

#1. We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

Stefano Gabbana

#2. We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#3. In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

J.B. Priestley

#4. The tyranny of maternal duty is not new, but it has become considerably more pronounced with the rise of naturalism, and it has thus far produced neither a matriarchy nor sexual equality, but rather a regression in women's status.

Elisabeth Badinter

#5. Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

Marie Brennan

#6. She'd teach him nineteen different ways to spell matriarchy.

Sherman Alexie

#7. What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [ ... ] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university

Camille Paglia

#9. A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

Dorothy Thompson

#10. My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

Mason Cooley

#11. Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

Hanna Rosin

#12. History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

Ralph Peters

#14. I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Steve Vai

#15. I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.

Gilda Radner

#16. We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.

Michael Holbrook

#17. In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Susan Block

#18. War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

Martin Van Creveld

#19. I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

Elsa Peretti

#20. It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.

Tim Berners-Lee