“In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjectio…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade he…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“The canon and civil law; church and state; priests and legislators; all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man. Creeds, codes, Scriptures and statutes, are all based on this idea. The fashi…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. In common parlance we have much fine-spun theorizing on the exalted office of the mother, her immense influence in moulding the character of her sons; ‘the hand that rocks the cradle moves the world,’…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, an…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is great…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“The world is large, said Okonkwo. I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family. That cannot be, said Machi. You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“The truth is that in addition to not protecting women, we are failing boys: Failing to raise them to believe they can be men without inflicting pain on others, failing to teach them that they are not entitled to women’s sexual attention and failing to allow them an outlet for understandable human fe…”— Jessica Valenti, nytimes.com
“I just moved in with my boyfriend and I don't have any stuff except for a food processor and, like, nineteen thongs, because even though at first we were like, 'I am not wearing that,' the patriarchy somehow convinced us that visible panty lines were unacceptable, so now I've just grown accustomed t…”— Stephen Falk, Gretchen Cutler, Aya Cash, imdb.com
“Your conversation about the derailment of the feminist movement is precisely what derailed the feminist movement. Do you know who loves when women demean each other based on their looks or their brains? The patriarchy.”— Liz Plank, twitter.com
“From an early age, I understood that the most meaningful validation a straight woman could get was from a man.”— Amy Kaufman, amazon.com
“The patriarchy is a grand conspiracy to keep men in power by silencing women's voices, then telling us we're making it all up. Burn it to the ground or die trying.”— Lauren Duca, twitter.com
“That’s what explained vaginal versus clitoral orgasms? Neural wiring? Not culture, not upbringing, not patriarchy, not feminism, not Freud?”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Why is it helpful men speak up? Because that's what this personality fears most: the disintegration of the tacit male support for this behavior.”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com
“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.com