Quotes by Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler

…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.

Keys

People

Women

[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life – rather than death and the fear of death – were dominant in society as well as art.

Art

Love Life

Religious

And this exclusion of “women’s work” continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women) indicating that women globally contribute two-thirds of the world’s work hours, for which – given the imbalanced, unjust, and truly peculiar nature of the accounting characteristic of dominator economics – they globally earn only one-tenth of what men do and own a mere one-hundredth of the world’s property.

Data

Men

Two

As long as women and the “feminine” such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.

Caring

Creating

Play

At the core of every child is an intact human.

Children

Core

Humans

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?

Care

Long

People

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

Care

Done

Wages

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

Childhood

Training

Wages

Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.

Attention

Caring

Connections

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

Differences

Inferiority

Serving

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Creating

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Different

Done

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Foundation

Girl

Greater

Growing Up

Hands

Hate

Heal

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Islamic

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Quotes by Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler

…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.

[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life – rather than death and the fear of death – were dominant in society as well as art.

As long as women and the “feminine” such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.

At the core of every child is an intact human.

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?

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.

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

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