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We are losing our democracy to White supremacy, we are losing our democracy to patriarchy, we are losing our democracy to people who want to keep a status quo that is damning to the rest of us and damning to our children and unborn people. – Justin Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That's probably some kind of a persistence of misogyny or patriarchy or something in that camp -- that the idea of a man taking on his wife's last name would be somehow considered problematic. – Joshua Coleman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is how the patriarchy works here, taking away reproductive rights, it is really hard to be a woman in Poland. – Justyna Wydrzynska	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Pleasure is threatening, it challenges those who are in power. As long as the society keeps women as second-class citizens, then men are in control. So denying [women] reproductive health, contraception, safe abortions, and certainly altering their body -- taking away the sexual pleasure aspects of one's anatomy -- keeps them suppressed and patriarchy in power. – Eli Coleman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We can not say that literacy has not contributed to women's empowerment -- lots of progress has been made for women's rights in different social avenues, at the same time, we have this deep seated patriarchy that we are not able to overcome irrespective of the high rates of literacy. – Sandhya Pillai	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There’d be the event directors and they would kind of schedule things the way they wanted to schedule and there would be bias from the outdated patriarchy. It’s changed immensely, it took a while for the women to complain about it. – Greg Cruse	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The climate crisis really emerged from interlocking systems of capitalism, resource extraction, racism, patriarchy and colonization, it’s beyond past time to end the tragic cycle of endless economic growth based on sacrificed peoples and sacrificed lands. – Osprey Orielle Lake	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I'm hoping that all of us can start to think about how patriarchy and hierarchy has really diminished people's interest in museums and cultural centers, this will enliven your audience. It's just the right thing to do. – Elissa Blount Moorhead.For Moorhead	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Patriarchy is entrenched in the fabric of our society, to the extent that women themselves see it as a normal way of life and continue to enforce it. – Khoabane Theko	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is exactly what the boys always depend on -- that we'll be divided and tearing each other down, and when we're divided instead of fighting the patriarchy, we lose ground. – Van Pelt	Found on CNN 5 years ago
My action today was first and foremost an action lead by the group I joined in Europe about a year-and-half ago called Femen, femen is an international Women’s movement of topless female activists painted with slogans and our mission is protesting the patriarchy and reclaiming our bodies. – Nicolle Rochelle	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It’s a Cromwell moment! It’s even more powerful than populism. It’s deeper. It’s primal. It’s elemental. The long black dresses and all that—this is the Puritans! It’s anti-patriarchy. – Steve Bannon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You can have an endless number of mediocre and less than mediocre male rappers and they're not pitted against each other in that way, [But] there's this pitting of women against each other that happens. And this singularity that we've come to expect that is deeply rooted in the patriarchy of society, which is manifested in hip-hop as well. – Treva Lindsey	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Women, one of the ways they push back against patriarchy, they say, 'This is my body. You don't get to tell me what comes in and out,’. – Anne DeLessio-Parson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Ellen DeGeneres from Ellen DeGeneres daytime talk show in 2006. Kathy Griffin explained Kathy Griffin wished there was more of a comradery between female comics. My issue with Ellen DeGeneres is simple, you know, the guys in comedy are so good about sticking together. I feel sad that women don't support each other the way the guys do. Joan [ Rivers ] and I would talk about this all the time. Patriarchy pits us against each other. – Ellen DeGeneres	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's reasonable to criticize what Actress Sharon Stone is doing as capitulating to the patriarchy because Actress Sharon Stone's making a clear and implicit statement that the way for Actress Sharon Stone to get Actress Sharon Stone career back is to pose nude. But we all bargain with the patriarchy. At least Actress Sharon Stone's being straightforward about how Actress Sharon Stone's claiming to get Actress Sharon Stone career back and I don't think there's anything particularly new or unique or interesting about what doing, if anything, I appreciate Actress Sharon Stone honesty about it. – Lisa Wade	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Affirmative action is a solid step forward because those girls and women who move into the sphere of education and work and acquire additional skills challenge local patriarchy and can change attitudes. – Ravi Verma	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The hope is... that men and boys might start to reconsider the way they want to be manly, what kind of men they want to be, when you start asking questions challenging the status quo for what it means to be a man, it forces men ... to reconsider all these very destructive symptoms of patriarchy. – Carlos Andres Gomez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are challenging the global system of patriarchy, and with it come risks. – Heidi Lehman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son. – Adrienne Rich	added by anonymous 10 years ago

We are losing our democracy to White supremacy, we are losing our democracy to patriarchy, we are losing our democracy to people who want to keep a status quo that is damning to the rest of us and damning to our children and unborn people.

– Justin Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's probably some kind of a persistence of misogyny or patriarchy or something in that camp -- that the idea of a man taking on his wife's last name would be somehow considered problematic.

– Joshua Coleman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is how the patriarchy works here, taking away reproductive rights, it is really hard to be a woman in Poland.

– Justyna Wydrzynska

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pleasure is threatening, it challenges those who are in power. As long as the society keeps women as second-class citizens, then men are in control. So denying [women] reproductive health, contraception, safe abortions, and certainly altering their body -- taking away the sexual pleasure aspects of one's anatomy -- keeps them suppressed and patriarchy in power.

– Eli Coleman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can not say that literacy has not contributed to women's empowerment -- lots of progress has been made for women's rights in different social avenues, at the same time, we have this deep seated patriarchy that we are not able to overcome irrespective of the high rates of literacy.

– Sandhya Pillai

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’d be the event directors and they would kind of schedule things the way they wanted to schedule and there would be bias from the outdated patriarchy. It’s changed immensely, it took a while for the women to complain about it.

– Greg Cruse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The climate crisis really emerged from interlocking systems of capitalism, resource extraction, racism, patriarchy and colonization, it’s beyond past time to end the tragic cycle of endless economic growth based on sacrificed peoples and sacrificed lands.

– Osprey Orielle Lake

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I'm hoping that all of us can start to think about how patriarchy and hierarchy has really diminished people's interest in museums and cultural centers, this will enliven your audience. It's just the right thing to do.

– Elissa Blount Moorhead.For Moorhead

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Patriarchy is entrenched in the fabric of our society, to the extent that women themselves see it as a normal way of life and continue to enforce it.

– Khoabane Theko

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is exactly what the boys always depend on -- that we'll be divided and tearing each other down, and when we're divided instead of fighting the patriarchy, we lose ground.

– Van Pelt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My action today was first and foremost an action lead by the group I joined in Europe about a year-and-half ago called Femen, femen is an international Women’s movement of topless female activists painted with slogans and our mission is protesting the patriarchy and reclaiming our bodies.

– Nicolle Rochelle

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It’s a Cromwell moment! It’s even more powerful than populism. It’s deeper. It’s primal. It’s elemental. The long black dresses and all that—this is the Puritans! It’s anti-patriarchy.

– Steve Bannon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You can have an endless number of mediocre and less than mediocre male rappers and they're not pitted against each other in that way, [But] there's this pitting of women against each other that happens. And this singularity that we've come to expect that is deeply rooted in the patriarchy of society, which is manifested in hip-hop as well.

– Treva Lindsey

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Women, one of the ways they push back against patriarchy, they say, 'This is my body. You don't get to tell me what comes in and out,’.

– Anne DeLessio-Parson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Ellen DeGeneres from Ellen DeGeneres daytime talk show in 2006. Kathy Griffin explained Kathy Griffin wished there was more of a comradery between female comics. My issue with Ellen DeGeneres is simple, you know, the guys in comedy are so good about sticking together. I feel sad that women don't support each other the way the guys do. Joan [ Rivers ] and I would talk about this all the time. Patriarchy pits us against each other.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's reasonable to criticize what Actress Sharon Stone is doing as capitulating to the patriarchy because Actress Sharon Stone's making a clear and implicit statement that the way for Actress Sharon Stone to get Actress Sharon Stone career back is to pose nude. But we all bargain with the patriarchy. At least Actress Sharon Stone's being straightforward about how Actress Sharon Stone's claiming to get Actress Sharon Stone career back and I don't think there's anything particularly new or unique or interesting about what doing, if anything, I appreciate Actress Sharon Stone honesty about it.

– Lisa Wade

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Affirmative action is a solid step forward because those girls and women who move into the sphere of education and work and acquire additional skills challenge local patriarchy and can change attitudes.

– Ravi Verma

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The hope is... that men and boys might start to reconsider the way they want to be manly, what kind of men they want to be, when you start asking questions challenging the status quo for what it means to be a man, it forces men ... to reconsider all these very destructive symptoms of patriarchy.

– Carlos Andres Gomez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are challenging the global system of patriarchy, and with it come risks.

– Heidi Lehman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

– Adrienne Rich

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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