matriarchs

• “W. JUDD: Yes, I think my grandmother, what you would call the matriarchs of the ...”

  CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Wynonna and Naomi Judd Discuss 'The Power to Change' - January 28, 2000

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: G'lder

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: DeeDee Garcia Blase: Hispanic Matriarch Political Movement Reaction to Herman Cain's Atrocious Anti-Immigrant Remarks

• “It is time to politically educate Latin matriarchs who make decisions of the households.”

  The Huffington Post: DeeDee Garcia Blase: Hispanic Matriarch Political Movement Reaction to Herman Cain's Atrocious Anti-Immigrant Remarks

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: A Spiritual Night in Hebron

• “There, its crown jewel is the city of Hebron, first capital city of the Jewish people and where its patriarchs and matriarchs are buried.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: A Spiritual Night in Hebron

• “Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love?”

  The Lovecraft News Network

• “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.”

  Global Voices in English » Morocco: Four Perspectives on Sexual Harassment

• “Yet these were men and women who built whole nations, serving as patriarchs and matriarchs.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: An Unforgiving Electorate Invites Mediocrity in Public Office

• “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.”

  USA Today: Jewish Giffords' shooting suspect: 'No! I don't trust in God!'

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