At the core of every child is an intact human. Riane Eisler More Quotes by Riane Eisler More Quotes From 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 aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness. Riane Eisler awe-and-wonderpaincells For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods. Riane Eisler expressionspiritualloss Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women. Riane Eisler hunger-and-povertyour-worldpeople For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal. Riane Eisler islamicmenfather If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy). Riane Eisler economypovertyserious 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. Riane Eisler connectionscaringattention We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for relations early on. They then automatically apply it to other differences, whether based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth. Riane Eisler growing-upracechildren People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval. Riane Eisler caringwarpeople 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." Riane Eisler productive-workcaringpeople It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men. Riane Eisler religiouschristianwar That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so. Riane Eisler womenchristianwar 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. Riane Eisler votersnewspeople 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. Riane Eisler womenpowerfulspiritual Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects. Riane Eisler supportorganizationsocial war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Riane Eisler warsex What happened in the US is a regression to the domination side of the social scale. Trump claimed that he, as a "strongman," would solve all our problems, and was elected by fanning fear, hate, scapegoating, the debasement of women. Riane Eisler regressionhatesides there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between. Riane Eisler maleshumanitytwo ...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. Riane Eisler womenkeyspeople Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world. Riane Eisler communicationcaringteaching We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system. Riane Eisler environmentalbalance
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