![]() ![]() More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become ![]() Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ![]() Until You by Judith McNaught 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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