Riane Eisler

“Now, perhaps nowhere as poignantly as in the omnipresent theme of Christ dying on the cross, the central image of art is…

— 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…

— Riane Eisler

It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male…

— Riane Eisler

The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of…

— 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…

— Riane Eisler

“Indeed, if we look closely at the art of the Neolithic, it is truly astonishing how much of its Goddess imagery has…

— 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…

— Riane Eisler

“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens…

— Riane Eisler

Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true…

— Riane Eisler

“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have…

— 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…

— Riane Eisler

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits,…

— 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…

— Riane Eisler

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in…

— Riane Eisler

In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and…

— Riane Eisler

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower,…

— Riane Eisler

“All over the ancient world populations were now set against populations, as men were set against women and against other men. Wandering…

— Riane Eisler

This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind…

— Riane Eisler

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and…

— Riane Eisler

The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the…

— Riane Eisler

So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out…

— Riane Eisler

For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had…

— Riane Eisler

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