Patriarchy Quotes

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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

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Dans la femme parÃ©e, la Nature est prÃ©sente, mais captive,

Dans la femme parÃ©e, la Nature est prÃ©sente, mais captive, modelÃ©e par une volontÃ© humaine selon le dÃ©sir de l'homme.

Simone de Beauvoir

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The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who pi

The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was the power and the money and the influence. He was the proprietor of the paper and its editor and sub-editor. He was the Foreign Secretary and the Judge. He was the cricketer; he owned the racehorses and the yachts. He was the director of the company that pays two hundred per cent to its shareholders. He left millions to charities and colleges that were ruled by himself. He suspended the film actress in mid-air. He will decide if the hair on the meat axe is human; he it is who will acquit or convict the murderer, and hang him, or let him go free. With the exception of the fog he seemed to control everything.

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