Keith Henson Quotes

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

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?

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

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

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

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.

We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

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

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

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

The only danger is, that he will attempt to suppress polygamy in that country be marrying all of the women himself.

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.

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

Among the emasculation men fear most is subordination to women.

Islamic Law [Sharia] … gives men the right to marry more than one woman, and refers to women as “complementary” rather than “equal” to men.

With men it's always like this in Russia - they always want to be the head of everything.

In our family, the men have always stood at the head, true patriarchs that take the lead, teach, and live their lives as examples... Women have a significant role as helpers to our husbands and co-counsels in the parental equation.

I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.