Patriarchal Blessings

Famous quotes containing the words patriarchal and/or blessings:

“Women’s liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let’s get on with it.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)