We hope you’ll join us.In The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler proposes that there are two basic models on which human society can be based: the dominator model, in which hierarchies are created and preserved via force or aggression (the status quo), and the partnership model (which is equalitarian and cooperative), with human societies falling somewhere along a continuum. That we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters we read books cover-to-cover but

Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. World conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2018, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. Songmaster by Orson Scott Card About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, ― Riane Eisler, quote from The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue) If there was here no glorification of wrathful male deities or rulers carrying thunderbolts or arms, or of great conquerors dragging abject slaves about in chains, it is not unreasonable to infer it was because there were no counterparts for those images in real life.10 And if the central religious image 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.” “The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected a social order in which women, first as heads of clans and priestesses and later on in other important roles, played a central part, and in which both men and women worked together in equal partnership for the common good.

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