In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“The main take-home lesson from a careful study of nomadic forager partnership societies, re-enforced by the recent Nordic experience, is that humans… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the… — 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… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned… — 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
