"...a way of structuring reality in terms of good / evil, redemption / guilt, authority / obedience, reward / punishment, power / powerless, haves / havenots, master / slave..."

Morton, Nelle. "Toward a Whole Theology." Task Force on Women of the World Council of Churches. Typescript. Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois: n.d. (Quoted in Kramarae & Treichler).

"...the prevailing religion of the entire planet, and its essential message is necrophilia."

Daly, Mary. Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978. (Quoted in Kramarae & Treichler).

"...a sexual system of power in which the male possesses superior power and economic privilege. Patriarchy is the male hierarchical ordering of society.... The patriarchal system is preserved, via marriage and the family, through the sexual division of labor and society..."

Eisenstein, Zillah R., ed. Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979. (Quoted in Kramarae & Treichler).

"...evident at once if one recalls that the military, industry, technology, universities, science, political offices, finances - in short, every avenue of power within the society, including the coercive force of the police, is entirely in male hands."

Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Avon Books, 1971. (Quoted in Kramarae & Treichler).