Riane Eisler Quotes

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

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

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

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

At the core of every child is an intact human.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

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

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.

To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.

Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership.

Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.

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

In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.