[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of… — 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 Image
war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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