Quotes of Patriarch - somelinesforyou

“ If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination. ”

- Mary Daly

“ Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases — it was the outpouring of the heart. ”

- Herbert Lockyer

“ It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children. ”

- African proverb

“ One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women. ”

- Rosalind Coward

“ It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard
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