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> [For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/for-most-of-recorded-history-parental-violence-against-children-and/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

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> [That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/that-both-muslim-fundamentalists-and-the-christian-right-are-today/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

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## Other authors on Approved

## More by Riane Eisler

> [“Now, perhaps nowhere as poignantly as in the omnipresent theme of Christ dying on the cross, the central image of art is no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/now-perhaps-nowhere-as-poignantly-as-in-the-omnipresent-theme-of/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/war-and-the-war-of-the-sexes-are-neither-divinely-nor-biologically/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/the-link-between-intimate-violence-in-the-home-and-the-international/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/it-is-not-coincidental-that-for-so-called-religious-fundamentalists/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/the-bad-news-is-that-the-movement-toward-the-partnership-side-of-the/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [“Like the absence of gender-specific terms such as glyany and androcracy from the vocabulary of historians, the systematic omission of women from accounts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/like-the-absence-of-gender-specific-terms-such-as-glyany-and/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [“Indeed, if we look closely at the art of the Neolithic, it is truly astonishing how much of its Goddess imagery has survived—and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/indeed-if-we-look-closely-at-the-art-of-the-neolithic-it-is-truly/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [“The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected a social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/the-goddess-centered-art-we-have-been-examining-with-its-striking/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens over “common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/many-cultural-stories-worldwide-present-the-domination-system-as-the/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/obviously-there-is-pain-in-childbirth-but-giving-birth-is-also-a/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/it-is-also-more-than-likely-that-women-invented-that-most-fundamental/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [“So again and again we see how under the prevailing paradigm our real past—and the original thrust of our cultural evolution—can only be seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/so-again-and-again-we-see-how-under-the-prevailing-paradigm-our-real/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/care-work-produces-public-goods-and-should-be-supported-in-families/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/to-change-our-realities-we-also-have-to-change-our-myths-as-history/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

> [The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/the-only-life-many-of-the-leaders-of-the-anti-family-planning/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

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