Patriarchal Paradigm Quotes

“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“I have a date,' he explained. 'This is an emergency.' He paused to catch his breath. 'Do you know' - breath - 'how to iron?' I walked over to the pink shirt. It was wrinkled like an old woman who'd spent her youth sunbathing. If only the Colonel didn't ball up his every belonging and stuff it into random dresser drawers. 'I think you just turn it on and press it against the shirt, right?' I said. 'I don't know. I didn't even know we had an iron.' 'We don't. It's Takumi's. But Takumi doesn't know how to iron, either. And when I asked Alaska, she started yelling, "You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me." Oh God, I need to smoke. I need to smoke, but I can't reek when I see Sara's parents. Okay, screw it. We're going to smoke in the bathroom with the shower on. The shower has steam. Steam gets rid of wrinkles, right?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own fundamental gender bias, which makes it inclined towards the wellbeing of women, over the wellbeing of the whole society. And if history has shown anything, it is that such fundamental biases in time corrupt even the most glorious ideas and give birth to prejudice, bigotry and differentiation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Some gender norms are healthy, some are unhealthy - you must wake up from the patriarchal sleep to recognize which is which.”
― Abhijit Naskar, See No Gender

“Women are no sheep.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality