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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.

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For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

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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.

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War and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

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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.

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Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

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Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler

Born: July 22, 1931 (age 93)

Bio: Riane Tennenhaus Eisler is a cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, attorney, speaker, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired scholars and social activists.

Known for:

The Real Wealth of Nations (2007)
Sacred pleasure (1995)

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