16 Quotes by Riane Eisler

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

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth’s religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people’s basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

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.

Through the use of the dominator and partnership models of social organization for the analysis of both our present and our potential future, we can also begin to transcend the conventional polarities between right and left, capitalism and communism, religion and secularism, and even masculinism and feminism.

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

At the core of every child is an intact human.