“In the fictional utopian society, the matriarchy ensured that women held power and authority, fostering gender equality and nurturing a harmonious community.”

“She suggests that the symbol of the Amazon is associated with the symbol of the Great Mother and with matriarchy.”

“Chamorro culture is a matriarchy, meaning that the women are central to the culture's survival.”

“Attended by a lady-in-waiting, the remarkable royal matriarch arrived at the north nave door and was conducted to the quire.”

“The dying matriarch of the family has set off a battle between her descendants for control of the estate.”

“Better by far to humbly defer to the family matriarch for the perfect dish.”

“I said the peoples with whom we are now being brought as a nation into vital relationship may be still in the matriarchate.”

“Bachofen, who has written voluminously upon the matriarchate, recognizes it as peculiarly characteristic of womans government.”

“Even in modern Germany remnants of the matriarchate survive.”

“There's no hint yet of the kilos of fat that will transform these lithesome beauties one day, after marriage, into stately matriarchs.”

“We are becoming the family patriarchs and matriarchs and the mantle sits uneasily on our shoulders.”

“Historically, soap storylines built around families, matriarchs, and patriarchs have not been diverse.”