“If any contract between men required the non-white one to adopt the legal identity of his Caucasian companion, would we pop the champagne?”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.comTagged: feminism, Patriarchy, Marriage, gender roles, Weddings
“I can already hear the outcry against conflating traditional marriage with slavery. Yes, I know, the marital bargain has changed: women are no longer chattels. Tell me this giving-away and name-changing are just vestiges of a cherished tradition. I’ll reply that some of my neighbors here in the sout…”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.comTagged: feminism, Patriarchy, Marriage
“Most progressives wouldn’t hesitate to attend a football game, or to praise the enlightened new pope – the one who says he’s sorry, but women still can’t lead his church, or control our reproduction.”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.comTagged: feminism, Me Too, Patriarchy
“Patriarchy persists because power does not willingly cede its clout; and also, frankly, because women are widely complicit in the assumption that we’re separate and not quite equal. If we’re woke, we inspect ourselves and others for implicit racial bias, while mostly failing to recognize explicit ge…”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.comTagged: feminism, Me Too, Patriarchy