Imagine Matriarchy

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."

― Zora Neale Hurston

"All women speak two languages: the language of men  and the language of silent suffering. Some women speak a third,  the language of queens."

― Mohja Kahf in The Marvelous Women

"Margaret Atwood once wrote that 'Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them,' but it’s even more complicated than that. Women aren’t just afraid that they’ll be hurt; they’re afraid that they’ll be hurt and they’ll get blamed for it."

― Ana Mardoll

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

― Karl Marx

"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution."

― Emma Goldman / Jack Frager

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

― Washington Irving

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."

― Helen Reddy

"After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough'."

― Anna Quindlen

"Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them."

― P. J. O'Rourke in Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

"I’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it ...with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am — and this ought to be made very clear — I am a very serious woman."

― Bella Abzug, in Bella! : Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

― Alphonse de Lamartine

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

― Gloria Steinem

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

― Margaret Thatcher

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."

― Brigham Young

"What if the state trooper who pulled you over on the New Jersey Turnpike was a woman and carried a gun? What if the ability to menstruate was the prerequisite for most high-paying jobs? What if the doctor who examined your prostate was a woman and called you 'Honey'?"

— For the Men Who Still Don't Get It, by Carol Diehl

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

— Joseph Conrad

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them."

— Margaret Atwood

"This world is a woman’s world. And us females are now the humans holding the privilege."

— Rachel Goodchild, child behavior coach and author

"Imagine a world where women invented the work place and the concept of a career."

— Verashni Pillay, editor of Mail & Guardian Online

"Sextremists are a demonstration of intellectual, psychological and physical superiority of women."

— Inna Shevchenko, Leader of FEMEN

BBC: What does [your husband] think of the matrilineal system?

MARY: He like.

— Mary of Meghalaya, India, BBC Interview

"...use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society." — Pamela Anderson

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." — Timothy Leary

"A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph." — Dorothy Thompson

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