Women Quotes 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…

— Riane Eisler

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Riane Eisler

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

— 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…

— Riane Eisler