Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay? — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Now, perhaps nowhere as poignantly as in the omnipresent theme of Christ dying on the cross, the central image of art is no longer… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. — Riane Eisler Copy Share
The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
“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… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
“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… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
“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… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens over “common… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
“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… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand. — Riane Eisler Copy Share
The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before… — Riane Eisler Copy Share
