Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.

Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

The overpowering male sex drive must be channeled toward possession of females.

Patriarchy is a political system just like colonialism was a political system.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Women’s power will be better tolerated when it’s wielded in service of patriarchal interests.

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

I think in wrestling generally there is this good old boys' system. Where you always have a lot of men at the top and a lot of men making all the decisions.