Hanna Rosin Quotes

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

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

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

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.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Man is the organizer of life, woman is his organ for carrying out plans.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.

As men, we have the illusion that we run the world.

Patriarchy has no gender.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.