Cycle of poverty Quote 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