"If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end"

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Source : Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.38, Palgrave Macmillan

Maria Mies

#Patriarchy Quotes

“Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)”
“If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.”
“Technology usually provides a series of tradeoffs. Each asset is offset by a deficit...A major problem occurs when those who suffer from technology's defecits and those who benefit are not the same people.”
“All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.”
“Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.”
“I know how to rebuild a team. I know how to step in and work hard.”
“On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood-took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.267, Ballantine Books
“The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.”

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