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We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.

Darnell Lamont Walker
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Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

Marie Brennan
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Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy.Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design and plan to exclude men as part of normal, daytime life wherever people live. In planning residential life, they aim at filling the presumed daily needs of impossibly vacuous housewives and preschool tots. They plan, in short, strictly for matriarchal societies.

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.

Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X
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In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Susan Block, The Bonobo Way
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This is Trenicia, the queen of the warrior women of the Isle of Akalla. Different places have different traditions and different customs. On the Isle of Akalla, the women rule, and the women do the fighting.""What do the men do?" the horseman Ekial asked curiously."As little as they possibly can," the warrior woman said in a sardonic tone. "Over the years, they’ve foisted just about everything off on us. We have to grow the food, hunt the meat, and fight the wars. The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call 'philosophy' - most of which is pure nonsense.

David Eddings, The Treasured One
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The female warrior knows how to fight without violence. She knows when not to raise her sword, but instead hold up her heart. Her shield is not a defense against others but a shelter for all.

Riitta Klint
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