Patriarchal Structures Quotes

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

I have a mother. I have a wife. I have a daughter. I have sisters. I can see just in my experience in my life, where sometimes they have been just put to the side in some of the things that they do.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Damned be the family and society. Cursed be the home.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

You see very senior women leaving technology and the men stay, mostly because they feel quite isolated and are isolated by the very systems.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.