--- title: "Best Riane Eisler Quotes" description: "Riane Tennenhaus Eisler is an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and author who writes about the effect of gender and family ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-riane-eisler-78319.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-riane-eisler-78319.jpg) # Riane Eisler (1931) Anthropologist United States **63** quotes in **533** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Riane Eisler is an anthropologist from the United States, best known for *The Chalice and the Blade*. ## Quick Facts About Riane Eisler Born July 22, 1931 Nationality United States Profession Anthropologist Notable works The Chalice and the Blade Spouse David Elliot Loye ## About Riane Eisler Riane Tennenhaus Eisler is an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and author who writes about the effect of gender and family politics historically on societies, and vice versa. She is best known for her 1987 book, The Chalice and the Blade, in which she coined the terms "partnership" and "dominator". ## Quotes by Riane Eisler · Page 2 > [For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/for-islamic-fundamentalists-male-honor-is-equated-with-control-over/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Choices](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choices/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/riane-eisler-10808_choices_for-islamic-fundamentalists-male-honor-i_1788076.jpg) > [there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/there-are-only-two-basic-ways-of-structuring-the-relations-between/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Female](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/riane-eisler-10808_female_there-are-only-two-basic-ways-of-structu_3073350.jpg) > [Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/care-work-is-still-primarily-done-by-women-for-free-in-families-and/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/riane-eisler-10808_care_care-work-is-still-primarily-done-by-wom_2502897.jpg) > [Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/neither-capitalism-nor-socialism-is-capable-of-meeting-our/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dc/riane-eisler-10808_age_neither-capitalism-nor-socialism-is-capa_1336596.jpg) > [For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/for-both-adam-smith-and-karl-marx-the-essential-work-of-caring-for/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Adam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adam/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94a/riane-eisler-10808_adam_for-both-adam-smith-and-karl-marx-the-es_2099120.jpg) > [Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/contemporary-nations-such-as-sweden-norway-and-finland-where-women/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Attention](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attention/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf4/riane-eisler-10808_attention_contemporary-nations-such-as-sweden-norw_1285248.jpg) > [For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/for-as-long-as-human-beings-are-forced-to-live-in-a-system-that-at/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Acquisition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquisition/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad4/riane-eisler-10808_acquisition_for-as-long-as-human-beings-are-forced-t_2075106.jpg) > [Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/rather-than-being-any-longer-a-threat-to-the-established-androcratic/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/riane-eisler-10808_christianity_rather-than-being-any-longer-a-threat-to_801265.jpg) > [“So again and again we see how under the prevailing paradigm our real past—and the original thrust of our cultural evolution—can only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/so-again-and-again-we-see-how-under-the-prevailing-paradigm-our-real/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Face to face](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/face-to-face/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/riane-eisler-10808_face-to-face_so-again-and-again-we-see-how-under-the_647282.jpg) > [The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/the-good-news-is-that-there-is-strong-movement-in-this-direction-of/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [18th century](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/18th-century/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/617/riane-eisler-10808_18th-century_the-good-news-is-that-there-is-strong-mo_1053106.jpg) > [The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/the-bad-news-is-that-the-movement-toward-the-partnership-side-of-the/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Bad news](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-news/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff9/riane-eisler-10808_bad-news_the-bad-news-is-that-the-movement-toward_328624.jpg) > [This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/this-notion-that-man-can-and-should-have-absolute-dominion-over-the/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Absolutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolutes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcd/riane-eisler-10808_absolutes_this-notion-that-man-can-and-should-have_1031433.jpg) > [So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/so-many-of-the-models-of-courage-we-ve-had-ones-that-are-still-taught/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d2/riane-eisler-10808_authority_so-many-of-the-models-of-courage-we-ve-h_1104404.jpg) > [For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/for-most-of-recorded-history-parental-violence-against-children-and/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Activist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/riane-eisler-10808_activist_for-most-of-recorded-history-parental-vi_1128527.jpg) > [People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/people-from-authoritarian-male-dominated-punitive-families-tend-to/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Backgrounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/backgrounds/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/riane-eisler-10808_backgrounds_people-from-authoritarian-male-dominated_2564975.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/if-we-look-at-the-last-decades-we-see-that-the-us-rightist/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Agendas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/agendas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f58/riane-eisler-10808_agendas_if-we-look-at-the-last-decades-we-see-th_2053986.jpg) > [Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/obviously-there-is-pain-in-childbirth-but-giving-birth-is-also-a/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Altered](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/altered/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/608/riane-eisler-10808_altered_obviously-there-is-pain-in-childbirth-bu_479202.jpg) > [“Indeed, if we look closely at the art of the Neolithic, it is truly astonishing how much of its Goddess imagery has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/indeed-if-we-look-closely-at-the-art-of-the-neolithic-it-is-truly/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/riane-eisler-10808_art_indeed-if-we-look-closely-at-the-art-of_398960.jpg) > [We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/we-are-rapidly-moving-into-the-post-industrial-age-when-we-must/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/401/riane-eisler-10808_age_we-are-rapidly-moving-into-the-post-indu_1697637.jpg) > [While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/while-there-were-many-factors-in-the-2016-election-from-false-news-to/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Cybersecurity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cybersecurity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/riane-eisler-10808_cybersecurity_while-there-were-many-factors-in-the-201_2705702.jpg) > [For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/for-most-progressives-what-happens-in-families-is-a-matter-of-just/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/riane-eisler-10808_children_for-most-progressives-what-happens-in-fa_2743323.jpg) > [Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/care-work-produces-public-goods-and-should-be-supported-in-families/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b65/riane-eisler-10808_care_care-work-produces-public-goods-and-shou_672920.jpg) > [“in marked contrast to other high civilizations of the time, this religion—centering on the worship of the Goddess—seems to have both reflected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/in-marked-contrast-to-other-high-civilizations-of-the-time-this/) [Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/) [Civilizations](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civilizations/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/riane-eisler-10808_death_in-marked-contrast-to-other-high-civiliz_1758153.jpg) ## Riane Eisler by topic [Religion (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/riane-eisler/) [People (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/riane-eisler/) [Domination (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/domination/riane-eisler/) [Partnership (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/partnership/riane-eisler/) [Caring (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caring/riane-eisler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/#itemlist", "name": "Riane Eisler Quotes", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For Islamic fundamentalists male \"honor\" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Riane Eisler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/for-islamic-fundamentalists-male-honor-is-equated-with-control-over/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/riane-eisler-10808_choices_for-islamic-fundamentalists-male-honor-i_1788076.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/riane-eisler-10808_choices_for-islamic-fundamentalists-male-honor-i_1788076.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/riane-eisler-10808_choices_for-islamic-fundamentalists-male-honor-i_1788076.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For Islamic fundamentalists male \"honor\" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the…” — Riane Eisler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. 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