Matriarchy Quotes

“I don’t know what will happen if we really let women fully unleash themselves, as it is in the animal kingdom. Will they resort to polyandry? Or will one man have them all? Maybe that’s why we men try to have control over them? Maybe that’s why we have these institutions and structures like marriage? To bring stability to this human society?”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“It is said it is useless to look for equality in a relationship. Whether you want it or not, one always leads, and the other follows. Maybe we should give matriarchy a chance. But the weight should always be towards one side. As long as we compete for equality, none of us will lead, and none of us will follow.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“The female warrior knows how to fight without violence. She knows when not to raise her sword, but instead hold up her heart. Her shield is not a defense against others but a shelter for all.”
― Riitta Klint

“Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,” I ask you to see what happened to Margaret Mead, and how the Polynesians punked her—most of the things she wrote about their views on life, about their sexual freedom, was nonsense they made up to make her look foolish. In same way the fools like Gimbutas and others who believe that mankind at some remote point lived under a benevolent matriarchy, again, “at one with Nature,” in balance with the needs of the soil and such: sheer nonsense. Everywhere historians, archaeologists find what we thought was matriarchy was really no such thing.”
― Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

“The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.”
― Robert Briffault, The Mothers: the Matriarchal Theory of Social Origins

“A few individuals, a few of the great saints, certainly knew what femininity was about. In the old matriarchies there was no feminine consciousness, only unconscious mother. The "I", the ego with values and truths of its own was not operating. In the Celtic world they died for the Goddess but they had no ego that said, "Life is worth living." They were like the terrorists...who don't have the ego strength to say life is worth living so they willingly die for a cause. Feminine consciousness has been operative in some individuals, but not in a whole culture. Now I think we're starting to get free of the old matriarchy and free of the patriarchy. In other words, we are entering into conscious relationship with our mother and father complexes. As a planet we're moving toward maturity. We're trying to find out who we are when we're not possessed by those complexes. And we're fighting against time.”
― Marion Woodman, Conscious Femininity: Interviews With Marion Woodman

“Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep.”
― Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

“This is Trenicia, the queen of the warrior women of the Isle of Akalla. Different places have different traditions and different customs. On the Isle of Akalla, the women rule, and the women do the fighting."

"What do the men do?" the horseman Ekial asked curiously.

"As little as they possibly can," the warrior woman said in a sardonic tone. "Over the years, they’ve foisted just about everything off on us. We have to grow the food, hunt the meat, and fight the wars. The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call 'philosophy' - most of which is pure nonsense.”
― David Eddings, The Treasured One

“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.”
― Beth Cohen

“Nowadays,” my tour guide says, “it is a man’s world here in China. But 6000 years ago, it was a woman’s world. Man and woman don’t need to get married. Man can just visit the woman’s house at night. When you have a baby, it doesn’t matter who the father is.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole.”
― Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

“If women governed the entire world, it is my theory that soon we would have world peace and healing of the entire planet....”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“Food preservation became more than a jar of pickles; it became a direct link to our matriarchal history.”
― Christina Ward

“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the maternal gens, a growing exchange of goods between the tribes, development of the means of production, etc.) becomes the primary basis of authoritarian ideology by depriving the women, children, and adolescents of their sexual freedom, making a commodity of sex and placing sexual interests in the service of economic subjugation. From now on, sexuality is indeed distorted; it becomes diabolical and demonic and has to be curbed. In terms of patriarchal demands, the innocent sensuousness of matriarchy appears as the lascivious unchaining of dark powers. The Dionysian becomes "sinful yearning," which patriarchal culture can conceive of only as something chaotic and "dirty." Surrounded by and imbued with human sexual structures that have become distorted and lascivious, patriarchal man is shackled for the first time in an ideology in which sexual and dirty, sexual and vulgar or demonic, became inseparable associations.”
― Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X

“One of the best places any woman who wants to change the world can start is when picking up a book”
― Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

“Too many dissenters dilute the potency of progress.”
―C.Drying, Contingent Upon Magenta”
― C.Drying

“Back in Seven Trees, the remaining local males are hard at work. Some have fled, but most of the evacuees are female. Males are replaceable, always underfoot, always too numerous. Many have been instructed to remain in the city until the last, on pain of death.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.”
― Vivian French, The Bag of Bones

“Hyenas 'appear to violate the rules of mammalian biology,' Holekamp tells me. 'Studying the oddballs can teach you about the basics,' she explains. 'They allow us to gain insight into what the rules actually are.' And by showing us an alternative way to sociality and intelligence, they help us better understand our own beloved pets, and perhaps even ourselves.”
― Sy Montgomery, Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind

“Patriarchy has ruled spirituality long enough.”
― Priscilla Vogelbacher, Hallowed Be Thy Name

“Patriarchy believes emotion is weak and has no place in business or governance. It means leaving pieces of you behind when you sit at the table. It means that if you want to be part of the winning side, you have to comply and be ready to be part of the team without holding them back.

Matriarchal and egalitarian systems promote love-based decision-making and space for people to share their emotions.”
― Elaine Alec, Calling My Spirit Back

“And here we are hundreds of years later and you would think the male species would have evolved beyond punishing women over miscarrying, but sadly they have not, they keep repeating history. They use the female’s greatest gift, their ability to create life as a control method. And it's time it stops; the men need to grow and evolve. And nothing does that better to a human than suffering. It's the best teacher.”
― Melanie Sovran Wolfe, Professor Hex vs. Texas Men: Where Women's Rights and Revenge Fantasy Meet

“As Zeke chatted about his favorite color and the beauty of the world around them, Professor Hex’s hardened heart melted with each step. The bond between them began to take root, nurtured by the simple joy of sharing a walk in the park and the enchanting wonder of a child's imagination.”
― Melanie Sovran Wolfe, Professor Hex vs. Texas Men: Where Women's Rights and Revenge Fantasy Meet

“All the women in this family are widowed quick. The men burn out on us like church candles and not long after we're married all that's left of them is a stain on the sheets that won't come off for all the scrubbing in the world.”
― Layla Martínez, Carcoma

“The womb is not a leash. It is an origin point, and origins owe nothing to those who fear their independence.”
― pierre lagrenat

“When your worth is reduced to reproduction, your oppressor has already decided your mind is more dangerous than your womb.”
― pierre lagrenat

“When The Woman is King (Sonnet)

When the woman is king,
no mother goes without leave,
no dreamer goes without choice,
no queer goes without dignity.

In a world run by women,
no gender is second gender -
in a world run by the indigenous,
no ethnicity is the second race.

Before the human race becomes equal,
first the dehumanized must reign supreme -
when the woman is king, that's the
last time the world will ever need a king.

When the woman is king, not queen, not princess,
but the absolute monarch of the kingdom of apes,
that's the beginning of actual human evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace