Matriarchies Quotes

“Inside me, I have a mother-shaped hole I will have to learn how to fill with love. And this process will create a more profound and stronger empathy in me. I know this. I trust this. I have to live this. I have no other choice. Otherwise, all of this pain is meaningless.”
― Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

“As Baskerville points out, wherever fatherhood is discarded or diminished, we find “impoverished, crime-ridden and drug-infested matriarchies.” Taking on the role of proprietor, the state becomes the father under such “matriarchies.” According to Baskerville, “Without paternal authority, adolescents run wild, and society descends into chaos.” Quite naturally, the state has an ever-increasing reason to intervene in such a society – and inevitably, in the economy. What many defenders of capitalism have failed to understand is the connection between paternal authority and the free market. They have failed to understand that the erosion of patriarchy signifies the rise of a leviathan state (i.e., ever increasing government controls on the economy, and socialism).”
― J.R.Nyquist