Occupation: Writer Birth: 1937
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 ….
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….
...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….
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….
That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic e….
Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence….
If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's right….
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….
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; ….
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….
We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system..
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….
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..
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….
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 ….
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….
People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) ra….
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who ha….
[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 ….
We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world..
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feel….