Riane Eisler

People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft"…

— Riane Eisler

We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

— Riane Eisler

Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as…

— Riane Eisler

While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why…

— Riane Eisler

For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused…

— Riane Eisler

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old…

— Riane Eisler

We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.

— Riane Eisler

Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president…

— Riane Eisler

To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.

— Riane Eisler

there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned…

— Riane Eisler

We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female…

— Riane Eisler

[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a…

— Riane Eisler

Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed…

— Riane Eisler