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Ancient cultures were matriarchal—matri (mother) arche (beginning), beginning with the mother (see fig. 57). Mother-centered or matristic cultures were those societies that formed around the mother-child bond and rippled out from there.
Vicki Noble • Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World
Matriarchy and anonymity are the principles of these piles of biomass—
Bronze Age Pervert • Bronze Age Mindset
In the end, matriarchy isn’t the fear. Rather, it’s the idea that women will define their own value, and their own futures, on their own terms instead of by terms men have laid out—put differently, that each gender, and each individual, will have the power to determine their own destiny.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
In actuality, none of these narratives bear any close resemblance to the facts. This outrage is manufactured by a “female first” primary social order, with it originating from a toxic version of feminism that is no longer about equality. But rather, female dominance and male submission.
Steve From Accounting • The Unplugged Alpha: The No Bullsh*t Guide To Winning With Women & Life
Charles Eisenstein • Feminine Power
Charles Eisenstein • Feminine Power
Katie Jgln • No One Should Be Surprised That Celtic Britain Was Women-Centric
Western anthropologists have long insisted that there are no real matriarchies, if by ‘matriarchy’ we mean the opposite of ‘patriarchy’. But if patriarchy begins with the dominion of the father over his family and ends with the ruler over his subjects, as Robert Filmer wrote centuries ago in his Patriarcha, it’s hard to argue that matrilineal and m
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