Matriarchs

W. JUDD: Yes, I think my grandmother, what you would call the matriarchs of the ... ❋ Unknown (2000)

For nearly a thousand years, the Islamic rulers of the Holy Land forbade Jews from entering the tomb of the patriarchs and matriarchs, allowing them to climb only seven steps into the tomb but beating them mercilessly if they rose any higher. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2010)

Last year, at the request of several Arab countries, Unesco reclassified Rachel's Tomb—the 4,000-year-old burial site of Judaism's patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah—as a mosque. ❋ L. Gordon Crovitz (2011)

Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? ❋ Unknown (2009)

They will say the Mi Sheberakh, the prayer for the sick that calls on the God of the patriarch and matriarchs of the faith to heal and strengthen the ill. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I shudder at the idea that after raising them to embody the virtue of the Jewish matriarchs they should meet orthodox Jewish suitors obsessed with their external beauty to the exclusion of their inner G-dly commitment. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

He began to mumble the goddess's name, unaware that his voice had shifted from the rhythms of a commoner to the heady, respiratory melodies of the matriarchs. ❋ Curtis Hox (2011)

There, its crown jewel is the city of Hebron, first capital city of the Jewish people and where its patriarchs and matriarchs are buried. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2010)

This structure leads to what Kandiyoti refers to as the “patriarchal bargain”: younger women buy into a social structure that restricts and subordinates because someday, as older matriarchs, they will be able to restrict and subordinate the wives of their sons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet these were men and women who built whole nations, serving as patriarchs and matriarchs. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

As soon as snarky elder daughter Lady Mary Michelle Dockery found herself dragging the corpse of a handsome Turkish dignitary through the house in the middle of the night after he rather inconveniently died in her bed, it was clear that Fellowes was intent on nudging the genre beyond acid-tongued matriarchs, family inheritance issues and butlers with secret pasts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is time to politically educate Latin matriarchs who make decisions of the households. ❋ DeeDee Garcia Blase (2011)

And as Latina matriarchs, we're appalled by the cold-hearted tone the national debate has taken, especially with female figures like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. ❋ DeeDee Garcia Blase (2011)

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)