Patriarchy/history

Famous quotes containing the words patriarchy and/or history:

    “... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all—even as we forge different individual choices within them—just as do the megapatterns of nationalism or racism.”
    —Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

    “Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)