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)

    The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)