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.

- 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 relati…

- Riane Eisler

If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's right…

- Riane Eisler

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…

- Riane Eisler

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…

- Riane Eisler

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…

- Riane Eisler

[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 …

- Riane Eisler

We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.

- Riane Eisler

People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) ra…

- Riane Eisler