Matrilineal Society Quotes & Sayings

Wonder Woman represented modern America as leader of
the free world, and champion of the downtrodden. She forsook her kingdom and immortality to make the whole world a better place and, most of all, to fight for the rights of females. Just as America emerged as a global peacekeeper, Wonder Woman's adventures took her wherever women were in peril and their freedom was threatened, like the planet Venus with its butterfly-winged women, or the subterranean paradise Eveland.'Ihe "loving ways of the Amazons" that she was sent to teach the world were presumably the wisdom of the matrilineal society that predated the Greeks. "I can make bad men good and weak woman strong!" she says, as she spreads her message of empowerment across "man's world. — Mike Madrid

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things. — Ti West

Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate. — Bob Jones, Sr.

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town — Tom Waits

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word. — Nancy Duarte

As far as there can be friendship between wizards and goblins, I have goblin friends - or, at least, goblins I know well, and like. — J.K. Rowling

The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction. — Chinua Achebe

Women were important and respected in Iroquois society. Families were matrilineal. That is, the family line went down through the female members, whose husbands joined the family, while sons who married then joined their wives' families. Each extended family lived in a "long house." When a woman wanted a divorce, she set her husband's things outside the door. — Howard Zinn

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens. — Barack Obama

Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew. — David Wolpe

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing. — Greg Bear

Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined. — Abhijit Naskar

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. — Jodie Foster

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. — Heath Ledger

Don't grieve. Don't grieve. I shall be there/Look for my footprint on the air. — Naomi Lewis

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. — Frederick Lenz