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

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

For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.