Ancient Quote by Riane Eisler

“And if the central religious image was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it…

— Eisler Riane

“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

Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life…

— Bettany Hughes

“We have a gift beyond measure, the daily bliss of being alive. Forced by our disease to walk through the valley of the shadow…

— Judith Hooper

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

— Carol P. Christ

“In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but also a…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most natural thing…

— Eckhart Tolle

“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

“The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are…

— Megan McKenna

“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant…

— Frank Herbert

“Even when the tree falls, it makes the soil fertile to give birth to life. So where is the question of death? You live…

— Aruna Shenoy

“Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.”

— Eknath Easwaran