{"quotes":[{"text":"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.","author":"Shana Alexander","tags":["coverture","feminism","patriarchy"],"id":1263,"author_id":"Shana+Alexander"},{"text":"Dissociation from the body and emotions – numbness – is a basic requirement of the male ideal. Hardy and Hough point out that the patriarchal culture’s influence is so strong on this point that it interferes with men ever recognizing that pain is a normal indicator of a problem. And as the pain or discomfort increases, men are forced to choose between two problematic alternatives:If I admit I’m sick then I must do something about it. That may entail seeing a doctor which implies I’m weak, not in control of myself, not tough enough.However, if I don’t get help, I’ll get sicker and more vulnerable, really helpless.","author":"Mary Crocker Cook","tags":["dissociation","gender-role","gender-roles","men","patriarchy"],"id":5156,"author_id":"Mary+Crocker+Cook"},{"text":"The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.","author":"Theodore Sturgeon","tags":["chauvinism","feminism","matriarchy","patriarchy"],"id":6468,"author_id":"Theodore+Sturgeon"},{"text":"Marriage is a core component of the patriarchal system. According to Gerda Lerner's research on ancient societies, a woman could achieve at least some status, and with that, better treatment and privileges, through preserving her only capital – her virginity – and eventually offering it to just one man.","author":"Jenny Nordberg","tags":["feminism","marriage","patriarchy","virginity","women"],"id":11187,"author_id":"Jenny+Nordberg"},{"text":"(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to triumph; any more than it is that all Men are endow'd with them. There are many of our sex as intrepid as the Men (...)Need I bring Amazons from Scythia to prove the courage of Women? Need I run to Italy for a Camilla to shew an instance of warlike courage? (...) other nations glory in their numberless stole of warlike Women. (...) But to pass over the many instances of warlike bravery in our sex, let it suffice to name a Boadicea, who made the most glorious stand against the Romans (...) and if her endeavours did not meet with the success of an Alexander, a Cæsar, or a Charles of Sweden, in his fortunate days, her courage and conduct were such, as render her worthy to be consider'd equal, if not superior, to them all, in bravery and wisdom (...).","author":"Lady Sophia Fermor","tags":["18th-century","18th-century-feminism","amazon-feminism","amazons","boadicea","boudicca","feminism","patriarchy","strong-women","warrior-women"],"id":15995,"author_id":"Lady+Sophia+Fermor"},{"text":"My father despises cats. He believes them to be Democrats. He considers them to be little mean hillary clintons covered all over with feminist legfur. Cats would have abortions, if given half a chance. Cats would have abortions for fun. Consequently our own soft sinner, a soulful snowshoe named Alice, will stay shut in the bedroom upstairs, padding back and forth on cashmere paws, campaigning for equal pay, educating me about my reproductive system, and generally plotting the downfall of all men.","author":"Patricia Lockwood","tags":["cats","equality","feminism","parody","patriarchy","pro-choice"],"id":17940,"author_id":"Patricia+Lockwood"},{"text":"All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.","author":"John Legend","tags":["feminism","human-rights","patriarchy","women"],"id":18955,"author_id":"John+Legend"},{"text":"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["feminism","patriarchy","the-yellow-wallpaper"],"id":20227,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"Equal rights meant just that, rights for both blacks and women, with the association working for both at the same time. Women should not be told to 'stand back and wait.' [Frederick] Douglas said that women should be generous and allow the Negro to get his vote first. A young woman in the audience replied that she did not think it generous 'to compel women to yield on all questions ... Simply because they are women.","author":"Miriam Gurko","tags":["feminism","history","patriarchy"],"id":21483,"author_id":"Miriam+Gurko"},{"text":"Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness. I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there is to lose. A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["patriarchy","wife","wife-and-husband","wives","women","women-s-roles"],"id":22743,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":166,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}