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“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.”

Quote by Riane Eisler

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Riane Eisler is an American writer and social theorist known for her research on gender equality and social justice. Her work explores the relationships between gender, power, and social structures, having a profound impact on modern society. more

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“At the core of every child is an intact human.”

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“[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 not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.”

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“to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.”

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“Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.”

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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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Book:The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

Source: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

“Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?”

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“The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.”

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“In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.”

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Book:War on the Saints: A Text Book on the Work of Deceiving Spirits among the Children of God, and the Way of Deliverance

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“Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.”

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Book:All the Prayers of the Bible

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