matriarchy

• It's a true matriarchy, all right, as it should be. —  Volk
• Over a period of about ten years, I kept adding notes to a card-file outlining the "future history" of the "mother-ships" sent out by the "matriarchy" (a puritan backlash anti-war feminine oligarchy Earth Government), and in particular, the genealogy of the first "Survival Ship" and the experiences of its second generation. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
• Though surrounded by this age-old predestined battle between patriarchy and matriarchy, in the end she gives in neither to the Benandanti nor to Angelica's Goddess; she makes her choices for herself, and thereby escapes the extremes of either system. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
• They had vastly more than that, in the complex yet rigid matriarchy which ruled their dark world. —  August, 1953
• I come from a long line of bubbly, enthusiastic women, on my mother's side -- a matriarchy of outgoing charmers with mad skills for generating effortlessly effervescent small talk at cocktail parties. —  murderati

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