The term "matriarchate" encouraged this fallacy and has gone out of use. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)
"The matriarchate is a system of relationship according to which the child is related only to his mother and to the persons connected with him through the female line, while he is looked upon as not related to his father and the persons connected with him through the male line. ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)
Nor does this all seem to be solely a survival of the historic matriarchate through which all nations pass,—it appears to be more than this,—as if the great black race in passing up the steps of human culture gave the world, not only the Iron Age, the cultivation of the soil, and the domestication of animals, but also, in peculiar emphasis, the mother-idea. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)
Traces of the matriarchate survived to the present among some of the Arabs of North Africa, ancient home of "Libyan Amazons." ❋ Jan (2008)
As in Europe, the change from matriarchate to patriarchate came about only gradually and with much strife. ❋ Jan (2008)
For the matriarchate of Estcarp did have powers beyond any human explanation, and they used them ruthlessly when necessary. ❋ Norton, Andre (1963)
Raith Cremthainn, but the place where the parents had first met -- which would be an instance of the husband dwelling with the wife's people, as is frequent under the matriarchate. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Following out these views to their legitimate conclusions, and both experience and observation verify them, it is obvious that there is no evidence of the matriarchate system in Manóbo-land. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)
In these lists the mothers are always prominently mentioned, the reason for this most likely being the fact that Edomites attached importance to the line of maternal descent, and yet this fact could hardly point to a matriarchate. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
Besides, it may be well to append a list of the instances where the father or the mother give the names to their children and so to show the futility of the contention that the matriarchate prevailed of old according to the Scriptures. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
All these things do not, however, point to anything like the existence of a matriarchate. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
The fact that Eve, the mother, is the one that supplies the name is no indication that the Bible teaches that the matriarchate existed from days of old. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
On such an established fact rests the assumption of a matriarchate, or period of Mutterrecht. ❋ Melvin Moses Knight (1934)
But most phenomena belonging to our science have not yet been investigated, so it is no wonder that different writers (sometimes even the same writer on different pages) give different names to the same phenomenon, whereas, on the other hand, sometimes the same term (e.g., matriarchate) is applied to widely different phenomena. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)
An anthology might be made of the conceptions that students have formulated of the original form of the family, for example, the theory of the matriarchate by Bachofen, of group marriage growing out of earlier promiscuous relations by Morgan, of the polygynous family by ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)
Nor does this all seem to be solely a survival of the historic matriarchate through which all nations pass, -- it appears to be more than this, -- as if the great black race in passing up the steps of human culture gave the world, not only the Iron Age, the cultivation of the soil, and the domestication of animals, but also, in peculiar emphasis, the mother-idea. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Semitic analogy and Biblical evidences seem to indicate that among the early Hebrews, as among other early Semitic nations, man lived under a matriarchate system, i.e. kinship was constituted by uterine ties, and descent was reckoned through female lines; the father's relation to his children being, if not ignored, certainly of little or no importance. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Capes was inclined to support Miss Klegg until Miss Garvice cornered him by quoting him against himself, and citing a recent paper in the Nineteenth Century, in which, following Atkinson, he had made a vigorous and damaging attack on Lester Ward's case for the primitive matriarchate and the predominant importance of the female throughout the animal kingdom. ❋ Herbert George (1909)
From the stage when property ceased to be chiefly the creation of feminine agricultural toil (the so-called primitive matriarchate) to our present stage, women have had to depend upon a man's willingness to keep them, in order to realise the organic purpose of their being. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The matriarch looked proudly over her great [progeny], from her [eldest] daughter to her newest heir, her month-old [great-granddaughter]. ❋ Lorelili (2010)
[The leader] was a matriarchal. A [beastly] one [at that]. ❋ Morgan Tee (2008)
Dinner was astounding! I think [Paula Dean] could learn a few things from our [framily matriarch]!
Thank God for my framily matriarch! Without her I couldn't have afforded a vacation this year!
I am thankful for my framily matriarch: Mother to all Misfit Children, she who shrinks when she's angry, buys Christmas decorations in July, grills a mean [London broil], turns vegetarians into carnivores, cooks for all us with love and gives each and every one of us a place of home and sense of family regardless of our situation. ❋ Achilles866 (2009)
"Don't [piss off] that bitch, she's [the manatee] [matriarch]".
"Look at that heard of land walking sea cows! Led by the manatee matriarch". ❋ The Crimson Adder (2009)
I’m [okay] with any [mattress] matriarchs for our [sex cult]. ❋ BJmama69 (2021)
Bro1: Bro why you can't keep a girlfriend all these girls are [bomb dot com].
Bro2: Bro I just can't see these girls raising my kid. Children need consistent direction and we just don't [see things] the same way.
Bro1: bro, you got [matriarchal issues]. ❋ WhiteHead69420 (2023)