Occupation: Writer Birth: 1937
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who ha….
We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system..
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 d….
Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence….
That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic e….
Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now w….
I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal and sacrilegious; ….
People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) ra….
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 pa….
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 ….
This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's fam….
We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world..
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..
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 resp….
[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 ….
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feel….
If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's right….
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relati….
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 prob….
We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for rel….
So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a cou….