22 Quotes About Patriarchal

Patriarchy is a system of male dominance, embodied in a variety of institutions including a family’s patriarchal structure, a society’s legal codes, and the policies and practices of a nation. Patriarchy structures relationships between men and women to maintain power and privilege for men. In the process, it maintains social inequalities between the sexes that put women at an economic, political, and social disadvantage. The patriarchy has been described as an invisible system of power that operates from the social, cultural, economic, political, religious, legal and military structures of societies Read more

The patriarchy has been described as the most violent form of hierarchy in history in which men dominate women both in their personal lives and in society. It is not just about one man dominating another; it is about men dominating all other men in society for personal gain. It has no positive role to play in human existence or history.

It destroys relationships between men and women; it destroys relationships between children and parents; it destroys relationships between communities; it destroys relationships between nations; it destroys relationships between generations; it destroys relationships between races; it destroys relationships between genders; it destroys equality at home; it degrades women to mere property; it degrades them to mere sexual objects; it degrades them to mere tools of production for men’s enjoyment; it degrades the worth of every human being on this planet.

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Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. Abhijit Naskar
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The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence. Abhijit Naskar
How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress,...
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How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human. Abhijit Naskar
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Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures. Abhijit Naskar
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I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own fundamental gender bias, which makes it inclined towards the wellbeing of women, over the wellbeing of the whole society. And if history has shown anything, it is that such fundamental biases in time corrupt even the most glorious ideas and give birth to prejudice, bigotry and differentiation. Abhijit Naskar
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I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history. Abhijit Naskar
Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need...
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Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do. Abhijit Naskar
Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can...
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Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Abhijit Naskar
All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by...
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All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women. Abhijit Naskar
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Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom. Abhijit Naskar
Women are no sheep.
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Women are no sheep. Abhijit Naskar
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Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes. Abhijit Naskar
Any nation that does not learn to place women on...
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Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness. Abhijit Naskar
Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that...
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Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all. Christina Engela
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If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God. . Unknown
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Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The relationship between father and daughter, adult male and female child, is one of the most unequal relationships imaginable. It is no accident that incest occurs most often precisely in the relationship where the female is most powerless. The actual sexual encounter may be brutal or tender, painful or pleasurable; but it is always, inevitably, destructive to the child. The father, in effect, forces the daughter to pay with her body for affection and care which should be freely given. p4 . Judith Lewis Herman
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Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women. Anand Neelakantan
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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret".Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions. Jeffrey Eugenides
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This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my inferiority. This gradual anger over one humiliation after another may be hard for men to understand and even women who have not had the need to seek redress from perpetrators and who have been allowed to grow as I did in my youth unhindered, protected from male dominated themes like the military."47 (47 - paraphrased from Gurko, Miriram, The Ladies of Seneca Falls; the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement, 1974. Diane Chamberlain
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If it’s not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I’m interested in but don’t yet know. It’s when they explain things to me I know and they don’t that the conversation goes awry. Rebecca Solnit