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  1. 1. Mütter des Grundgesetzes der BRD
  2. 2. Starke Frauen
  3. 3. Zu schwer zu kontrollieren – Wangari Maathai
  4. 4. Namen starker Frauen
  5. 5. Der Aufruf des Dalai Lama an die Frauen
  6. 6. Das Matriarchat der Mosuo in China
  7. 7. Wille versus Willigkeit
  8. 8. Zitate zum Thema Frauen / Women
    1. 8.1 Zitate zu frauenrelevanten Themen
    2. 8.2 Zitate von Frauen über Frauen
    3. 8.3 Frauenfeindliche Zitate in der Bibel
    4. 8.4 Wasser und Feuer – Frauen und Männer (Rumi)
    5. 8.5 Das in Erniedrigung ausgetragene Menschentum der Frau
    6. 8.6 Hymne an das ewig Weibliche
    7. 8.7 Der Einfluss der Frau
    8. 8.8 Zitate von Männern zu frauenrelevanten Themen
    9. 8.9 Zitate (engl.) von Frauen zu frauenrelevanten Themen
    10. 8.10 Zitate (engl.) zu spirituellen Frauenthemen – Lucia René
    11. 8.11 Zitate (engl.) zu Frauen im Geschäftsleben / Women in Business
    12. 8.12 Zitate von Männern (engl.) zu frauenrelevanten Themen / Men on Women and Female Issues
    13. 8.13 Zitate (engl.) zu Frauenthemen u.m. / On men, women, gender and sexuality – Frederick Lenz [Rama]
    14. 8.14 Humorvolle Zitate (engl.)
  9. 9. Liste der Nobelpreisträgerinnen (44 Frauen – Stand: 2011)
  10. 10. Englische Texte – English section on Women
    1. 10.1 Comparing male and female leadership qualities – Pew Survey 2008
    2. 10.2 Too hard to control – Wangari Maathai
    3. 10.3 Will versus willingness
    4. 10.4 Water and Fire – Women and Men (Rumi)
    5. 10.5 Hymn to the Eternal Female
  11. 11. BW-Werte: Frauen / Women
    1. 11.1 LoC calibrations (engl.): Women
  12. 12. Links zu Themen Frauen, Göttin, Feminismus und Emanzipation / Women, Goddess, Feminism, Emancipation
    1. 12.1 Literatur (inklusive Filme)
    2. 12.2 Literatur (engl.)
    3. 12.3 Externe Weblinks
    4. 12.4 Externe Weblinks
    5. 12.5 Externe Weblinks (engl.)
    6. 12.6 Audio- und Videolinks
    7. 12.7 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.)
    8. 12.8 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Jean Shinoda Bolen
    9. 12.9 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Riane Eisler
    10. 12.10 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Helen Fisher
    11. 12.11 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Jane Fonda
    12. 12.12 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Carol Gilligan
    13. 12.13 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Barbara Marx Hubbard
    14. 12.14 Audiolinks (engl.) – Lucia René
    15. 12.15 Videolinks (engl.) – Lucia René
    16. 12.16 Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Gloria Steinem
    17. 12.17 Frauen – Inspiration (engl.)
    18. 12.18 Frauenfilme
    19. 12.19 Frauenfilme (engl.) / Women movies
    20. 12.20 Interne Links

Prinzessin Sabra, Königstochter
Maler: Edward Burne-Jones

Frauen im Garten, Maler: Claude Monet


 

Mütter des Grundgesetzes der BRD

Elisabeth Selbert (1896-1986) war eine deutsche Politikerin und Juristin. Zusammen mit Friederike Nadig ist sie eine der vier Mütter des bundesdeutschen Grundgesetzes. Ihrem Einsatz ist es zu verdanken, dass es seit 1948 den Artikel 3 Abs. 2 GG zur Gleichberechtigung der Frau gibt:
"Männer und Frauen sind gleichberechtigt."

Starke Frauen



Symbol der Weiblichkeit/Frauen
stilisiert den Handspiegel der röm. Göttin Venus

 

1872, vor mehr als 130 Jahren, kandidierte Victoria Woodhull, eine Frau aus der Unterschicht, für das Amt der amerikanischen Präsidentin. Sie hatte sich viele Jahre lang ihren Lebensunterhalt als Hellseherin und Wunderheilerin verdient und dabei viele Lebensgeschichten und die Problematik einfacher Frauen und Männer bezeugen können. Um mitzuhelfen, deren schwierige Lage zu bessern, beschloss sie, selbst politisch aktiv zu werden. Als erste Frau sprach sie vor dem Rechtsausschuss des amerikanischen Kongresses. Sie hielt Vorträge und füllte damit Hallen mit mehreren tausend Menschen. Und ließ sich als erste Frau als Kandidatin für die Präsidentschaftswahlen aufstellen.
Victoria Woodhul war Spiritualistin und betonte wiederholt, dass sie im Auftrag jenseitiger Kräfte unterwegs sei. Geistwesen und Engel hätten ihr aufgetragen, sich am politischen Geschehen ihrer Zeit zu beteiligen.

 

Ich bin als Prophetin in die Welt geboren worden und diese Überzeugung
erfüllt mich mit Demut, Zittern und Beben.

Augusta Ada Lovelace, November 1844

Zu schwer zu kontrollieren – Wangari Maathai


Wangari Maathai

Sie ist mir zu gebildet, zu stark, zu erfolgreich,
zu dickköpfig und zu schwer zu kontrollieren.

 

sagte nach 10-jähriger Ehe der Exmann der bedeutendsten Umweltschützerin und Frauenrechtlerin Afrikas, der Wissenschaftlerin und Umweltpolitikerin Dr. Wangari Maathai.
Sie ist unter anderem für das von ihr initiierte Aufforstungsprojekt Green Belt Movement bekannt geworden und wurde als erste schwarze Frau aus Afrika nach dreißig Jahren unermüdlicher Baumpflanzungs- und zugleich Frauenstärkungsarbeit 2004 mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnet.
Kenias Männergesellschaft hat sie nicht aufhalten können.
Sie und ihre Arbeit wurden Jahrzehnte lang von der regierungsfreundlichen Presse lächerlich gemacht. Sie wurde mehrfach von waldrodenden Landbesitzern krankenhausreif und auch beinah totgeschlagen und von der Regierungspartei, die erst Jahrzehnte später abgewählt wurde, ins Gefängnis geworfen. Seit 1983 hat die westliche Welt von ihr Notiz genommen und zeichnet sie mit Preisen aus.

Namen starker Frauen


Tarotkarte 3 – KAISERIN

Der Aufruf des Dalai Lama an die Frauen

Ich habe einen Glauben, weswegen mich manche womöglich als Feministen bezeichnen werden.
Vor Millionen von Jahren existierte kein Herrschaftsgedanke in der menschlichen Gesellschaft.
Alle waren gleich.
Die Leute arbeiteten miteinander und was immer sie hatten, teilten sie unter sich.
Schließlich wuchs die Bevölkerung. Einige bösartige Leute kamen auf die Idee, die Herrschaft einzuführen.
Die wesentliche Eigenschaft der Herrschaft ist der materielle Status.
Ich glaube, die männliche Vorherherrschaft [= Stolzkultur] stammt von damals.
Schließlich nahm die Bildung eine wichtige Stellung ein, wodurch sich das Gleichgewicht der Geschlechter
bedeutend verbesserte.

1. Geld oder Reichtum genügte nicht, um inneren Frieden zu bringen.
2. Das [naturwissenschaftlich orientierte] Bildungswesen genügte nicht, um inneren Frieden zu bringen.
3. Die Technologie genügte auch nicht, um inneren Frieden zu bringen.
4. Im 21. Jahrhundert müssen wir die Menschenrechte, Ethik, Mitgefühl und Zuneigung nachhaltiger fördern.
Frauen sind einfühlsamer angesichts der Schmerzen oder des Leidens anderer.  […]
Daher bitte ich die [westlichen] Frauen, sich stärker [in Führungsrollen] zu engagieren.

S.H., der 14. Dalai Lama, Peace Summit [Friedensgipfel], Clip 2 von 4 letzter Abschnitt, Minute 14:53-17:59,
Vancouver, Sonntag, 27. September 2009

Das Matriarchat der Mosuo in China

In psychologischer Hinsicht mögen die matriarchalen Familienstrukturen der Mosuo ein Idealbild verkörpern, wenn man Folgendes berücksichtigt:

  • Schwere Depressionen und Selbstmord sind fast unbekannt.
  • Die Kriminalitätsrate ist verschwindend gering.
  • Kinder werden von allen Sippenmitgliedern liebevoll betreut.
  • Gewalt in der Erziehung ist bei den Mosuo unbekannt.
  • Alte Menschen, Kranke und Behinderte sind im Familienverband voll integriert.
  • Das Zusammenleben innerhalb der Sippe ist trotz klar ausgeprägter Hierarchien demokratisch ausgerichtet.
  • Die meisten Entscheidungen werden im Kreise der Familie getroffen.
  • Die oberste Matriarchin hat eine ganze Reihe von Pflichten für das Gemeinschaftsleben der Sippe zu erfüllen.
  • Ihr kommt ein besonders hoher Stellenwert im religiös-rituellen Leben zu.
  • Ihr ist es vorbehalten, am nächsten zum Ahnenaltar zu sitzen und somit am engsten in Kontakt zu den Ahnen zu stehen.
  • Von einer dogmatischen Machtstellung kann hier nicht die Rede sein.
    Quelle Magazin, Welt – Reportagen & Analysen, S. 20, Heft 03/2001, März 2001

Matriarchatstheorien im Überblick:

 

I. Geschlechtsunterschiede
5. Es gibt eine natürliche Überlegenheit der Frau. sh. Sokrates
6. Frauen können/konnten sich durch Parthenogenese fortpflanzen.
Methoden der Überprüfung: Physiologie, Biologie, Primatologie, Anthropologie

 

II. Paläolithikum
7. Schon in frühester Zeit hat es Matriarchate oder frauenzentrierte Zusammenhänge gegeben.
8. Es gibt eine ungebrochene Kontinuität von Symbolen, sie gelten immer und zu allen Zeiten.
Überprüfung durch: Anthropologie, Paläontologie, Verhaltensforschung, Primatologie, Urgeschichte

 

III. Neolithikum
9. Rituale waren ganzheitliche Erkenntniszusammenhänge und spiegelten die historische Gesellschaftsstruktur.
10. Matriarchate waren stets egalitär und demokratisch organisiert.
11. Matriarchate pflegten eine naturverbundene Lebensweise.
Überprüfung durch: Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie, Ethnopsychoanalyse, Agrarwissenschaften

 

IV. Metallzeiten
12. Es gab ein weltweites Matriarchat.
13. Es gab Amazonen.
Überprüfung durch: Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte, Altphilologie, Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Montanwissenschaften

 

V. Frühgeschichte, Mittelalter
- Spuren des Matriarchats finden sich in Sagen und Märchen wieder.
Überprüfung durch: Philologie, Mediävistik, Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte

 

VI. Neuzeit und Gegenwart
14. Mythen sind »Fernrohre« in die Vergangenheit.
15. Es gab/gibt in verschiedenen Regionen der Welt matriarchale »Restethnien«.
16. Frauen sind von Natur aus friedfertig, Männer kriegslüstern.
17. Matriarchatsforschung ist per se »frauenfreundlich« und von Frauensolidarität gekennzeichnet.
Überprüfung durch: Philologie, Forschungsgeschichte, Ethnologie, Philosophiegeschichte, Soziologie, Politologie, Psychologie

 

inspiriert durch Martina Schäfer, Die Wolfsfrau im Schafspelz. Autoritäre Strukturen in der Frauenbewegung,
S. 32-33, Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag; Sphinx, München, 2001

Wille versus Willigkeit

Man brachte einen Jüngling zu einem weisen Mann und sagte:

"Siehe, das ist einer, der durch die Weiber verdorben wird!"

Der weise Mann schüttelte den Kopf und lächelte.

"Die Männer sind es, welche die Weiber verderben: und alles, was die Weiber fehlen, soll an den Männern gebüßt und gebessert werden, denn der Mann macht sich das Bild des Weibes, und das Weib bildet sich nach diesem Bilde."
"Du bist zu mildherzig gegen die Weiber", sagte einer der Umstehenden, "du kennst sie nicht!"

Der weise Mann antwortete:

"Des Mannes Art ist Wille, des Weibes Art Willigkeit – so ist es das Gesetz der Geschlechter, wahrlich! Ein hartes Gesetz für das Weib! Alle Menschen sind unschuldig für ihr Dasein, die Weiber aber sind unschuldig im zweiten Grade: Wer könnte für sie des Öls und der Milde genug haben."
"Was Öl! Was Milde!" – "Man muss die Weiber besser erzieh'n!"
"Man muss die Männer besser erzieh'n!",

sagte der weise Mann und winkte dem Jüngling, dass er ihm folge.
Der Jüngling aber folgte ihm nicht.

 

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) deutscher klassischer Gelehrter, Philosoph, Kulturkritiker, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft,
Werke in drei Bänden, Band II, Erstes Buch, Nr. 68, München, 1956

Zitate zum Thema Frauen / Women

Zitate zu frauenrelevanten Themen

Ihr Frauen, ordnet euch euren Männern unter wie dem Herrn (Christus); denn der Mann ist das Haupt der Frau, wie auch Christus das Haupt der Kirche ist; er hat sie gerettet, denn sie ist sein Leib. Epheserbrief 5, 22-23 (NT)

 

Persönliche Bekenntnisse

  • Wer seine Mannheit kennt und seine Weibheit wahrt, der ist die Schlucht der Welt. Laotse [BW 610] (604-531 v. Chr.) chinesischer Weiser, Philosoph, Begründer des Taoismus

 

  • Alle Männer sind Frauen vor dem Absoluten. Mirabai (um 1498-1547) aristokratische indische Hindu-Mystikerin, Dichterin, Krishna-Devotee der Sant-Tradition

 

  • Frauen, gleichgestellt, wären überlegen. Sokrates [BW 540] (469-399 v. Chr.) altgriechischer vorchristlicher Philosoph

 

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Bekenntnis eines reifen Mannes:

Loye bezieht sich auf seine Lebensgefährtin Riane Eisler (*ca. 1937) österreichstämmige US-amerikanische Makrokulturhistorikerin, Partnerschaftsforscherin, Soziologin, Evolutionstheoretikerin, Sozialaktivistin, Autorin, Referentin.

  • Für mich war es außerordentlich wichtig, mich mit einer Frau auszutauschen, die imstande ist, mich auf der Basis von Ebenbürtigkeit zu lieben, so wie ich sie. In einer vermännlichten, vom Herrschaftsdenken dominierten Gesellschaft kostet es zahlreiche Ehen und Liebesbeziehungen, um die uns eingehämmerten Verhaltensmuster, andere zu beherrschen, abzuschleifen. Frauen sind im Begriff, diesen Durchbruch zu schaffen. Sie haben begonnen, über den bestehenden Käfig der Dominanz-Hierarchie hinauszublicken, in dem noch nahezu alle Männer praktisch ohne Ausnahme gefangen sind. David Loye, Ph.D. (*1925) US-amerikanischer Sozialpsychologe, Erforscher von Evolutionssystemen, Partnerschaftsforscher, Autor

 

  • Carl Gustav Jung überlieferte folgenden Mythos der Hopi-Indianer:
    "Die Hopi behaupten, dass sie am Anfang tief unter der Erde, die viele Schichten aufwies, gelebt hätten. Jedesmal, wenn eine solche Schicht übervölkert war, machten die Frauen die Lage durch ihr Benehmen so unerträglich, dass die Männer gezwungen waren, einen Weg in die nächste Schicht hinauf zu finden; die Frauen taten also selbst nichts, aber durch ihr widriges Verhalten zwangen sie die Hopi, in die Welt des Bewusstseins hinaufzusteigen. Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998) Schweizerische Philologin, Jungsche Psychologin, Gelehrte, Psychologisch gesehen, Nr. 32, Das Weibliche im Märchen, S. 81, Bonz Adolf, 12. Auflage, Januar 1999

 

  • Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan. Johann Wolfgang Goethe [BW 465] (1749-1832) deutscher Schriftsteller, Poet, Bühnendichter, Universalgelehrter, Faust, Schlusssatz, 1832

 

  • Der Mann ist leicht zu erforschen, die Frau verrät ihr Geheimnis nicht. Immanuel Kant [BW 460] (1724-1804) deutscher Philosoph der Aufklärung (1724-1804)

 

  • Es ist die Frau, die Göttin, die das Geheimnis der Schöpfung kennt – das Geheimnis des Lebens, des Todes und der Wiedergeburt. Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) rumänisch-US-amerikanischer Professor der Religionsgeschichte, Universität von Chicago, Philosoph, Schriftsteller

 

  • Ich bin das All, das gewesen ist, das noch ist und das sein wird, und meinen Mantel hat noch kein Sterblicher aufgedeckt. Aussage von Göttin Isis über sich; aus: James George Frazer (1854-1941) schottischer Sozialanthropologe, Ethnologe, Klassischer Philologe, Mitbegründer der Religionsethnologie, Der Goldene Zweig – The Golden Bough, S. 528ff, Leipzig, 1928

 

  • Olympe de Gouges war während der Französischen Revolution unter denjenigen, die sich am stärksten für die Rechte der Frau einsetzten. 1791, also zwei Jahre nach der Revolution, veröffentlichte sie eine Erklärung, in der sie für Frauen genau dieselben Rechte wie für Männer verlangte.
    [Sophie]: Und was wurde daraus?
    Sie wurde 1793 hingerichtet. Und den Frauen wurde jegliche politische Aktivität verboten.
Jostein Gaarder (*1952) norwegischer Intellektueller, Schriftsteller, Sofies Welt. Roman über die Geschichte der Philosophie (1991) Carl Hanser Verlag, München und Wien, 1993, Kapitel 10, audiobooks

 

  • Weiblichkeit ist die Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit, mit offenem Herzen zu leben. Sie ist die Bereitschaft, die Seele im Körper zu empfangen. Sie ist das Tor zum Leben und zur Kreativität. [...] Ohne Weiblichkeit lebt die Seele nicht, ohne Männlichkeit kann sich die Seele nicht ausdrücken. Die Männlichkeit kommt zu einem Mann über das Weibliche. Männlichkeit ist die Kraft, das Wissen der Seele in Handlung umzusetzen. Darin liegt keine Wertigkeit. Beides gehört zusammen. Andrew Terker, Ph.D., US-amerikanischer Professor für Linguistik, Bewusstseinsforscher, multidimensionaler Heiler (Quantum ReleaseWork)

 

  • Die größte Revolution des Jahrhunderts ist die veränderte Stellung der Frau in der Gesellschaft. Theodor Heuss (1884-1963) erster deutscher Bundespräsident, Ende der 50er Jahre

 

  • Ich kann mich nicht dazu entschließen, dass mehr Frauen in der Politik tätig sein sollen. Franz Josef Strauß (1915-1988) deutsch-bayrischer Politiker, CSU-Vorsitzender, bayerischer Ministerpräsident

 

  • Wenn Du willst, dass etwas gesagt wird, frage einen Mann; wenn Du willst, dass etwas getan wird, frage eine Frau. Margaret Thatcher (*1925) britische Premierministerin des UK (1979-1990)

 

  • Es zeigt sich eben, Frauen sind auch Menschen. Angela Merkel (*1954) deutsche Physikerin, erste bundesdeutsche Bundeskanzlerin (seit 2005)

 

  • Ich bin es leid, eine Frau zu sein. Ich wäre schrecklich gerne einfach nur Mensch.
  • Ich halte die Frauen weder für die besseren Menschen, noch möchte ich, dass sie bevorzugt werden.
  • Verunsicherte Männlichkeit ist gefährlich bis lebensgefährlich. Vor allem für Frauen und Kinder. Interview mit Alice Schwarzer (*1942) führende deutsche Feministin, Journalistin, EMMA-Herausgeberin, Weltwoche, CH, Interviewer Roger Köppel und Thorsten Stecher, Ausgabe 49, 2003

 

  • Die Philosophen haben die Welt immer nur männlich interpretiert; es kommt darauf an, sie auch weiblich zu interpretieren und menschlich zu verändern. Irmtraud Morgner (1933-1990) deutsche genderorientierte Schriftstellerin des magischen Realismus

 

  • Nur gemeinsam lässt sich Partnerschaft entwickeln, die der neuen Rolle von Mann und Frau gerecht wird. Beim Gegeneinander verliert am Ende jeder. Waltraut Kruse, deutsche Professorin für Medizin, Psychotherapeutin, Bürgermeisterin in Aachen

 

  • 97% aller Karrieremänner sind verheiratet und haben sogar überdurchschnittlich viele Kinder. Dagegen haben 40% aller Frauen, die Karriere machen, keine feste Partnerschaft und keine Kinder. Elke Müller-Mees (*1942) deutsche Schriftstellerin, 1993

 

  • Der deutsche Mann tut sich mit der Vorstellung von Frauen als gleichwertigen Menschen wohl am schwersten. Elke Müller-Mees (*1942) deutsche Schriftstellerin, 1993

 

 

  • Ich bin ein Mitkämpfer für die »verrufene Emanzipation der Frauen«, indem ich kämpfe für eine bedeutend erweiterte Geltung und Berücksichtigung der Familie im modernen Staat. Denn in der Familie stecken die Frauen. Sie sollen wirken für das öffentliche Leben, aber man soll ihrer dabei nicht ansichtig werden, denn sie sollen zu Hause bleiben. Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-1897) deutscher Journalist, Novellist, Kulturhistoriker, erster deutscher Familiensoziologe

 

  • Das mögliche wie das wirkliche Leben der Frauen darzustellen, soll endlich nicht mehr Sache eines dafür ganz inkompetenten Mannes sein. Männer haben Jahrtausende lang am Bild vom Leben der Frau gemalt, und was dabei herausgekommen ist, wissen wir inzwischen genauer als je zuvor. Zeit, dass sich Frauen um ihre eigene Perspektive kümmern. Inhalt und Ziele eines Frauenlebens auch nur zu beschreiben, ist endgültig nicht mehr Angelegenheit von Männern. Horst Herrmann (*1940) deutscher Soziologe, Patriarchatskritiker, Schriftsteller, Kirchenrechtler, Kirchenkritiker, Entwickler der Mandatssteuer zur Kirchenfinanzierung

 

  • Solange wir die Welt der Frauen zum Schweigen verurteilen, bleibt der Karfreitag unser Schicksal. Eugen Drewermann (*1940) ehemals deutscher katholischer Theologe, suspendierter Priester, Kirchenkritiker, Psychoanalytiker, tiefenpsychologischer Exeget, Referent, Schriftsteller

 

  • Männer haben mehr Fantasie! Eine Frau wäre niemals zum Mond geflogen. Das ist reine Männersache. Vicco von Bülow [Loriot] (*1923) deutscher Humorist, Karikaturist, Regisseur, Schauspieler, Bühnen- und Kostümbildner

 

  • Ist die Frau weniger wert als der Mann? Wer diese Frage beantwortet, kann auch sagen, ob Feuer mehr wert ist als Wasser. Carl Ludwig Schleich (1859-1922) deutscher Chirurg, Schriftsteller, Entwickler der Infiltrationsanästhesie

 

  • Etwas Unheimliches geht vor sich – also muss eine Frau dahinterstecken. Al Bundy (*1948) männliche fiktive Filmfigur in der US-Sitcom-Serie Eine schrecklich nette Familie

 

  • Die Frau ist die einzige Beute, die auf ihren Jäger lauert. Redensart

 

  • Wenn eine Frau sagt jeder, meint sie: jedermann. Wenn ein Mann sagt jeder, meint er: jeder Mann. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) österreichische Schriftstellerin, Aphoristikerin

 

  • Eine Frau ohne Mann ist wie ein Fisch ohne Fahrrad. Gloria Steinem (*1934) US-amerikanische Feministin der neuen Frauenbewegung, Frauen- und Menschenrechtlerin, visionäre politische Aktivistin, Autorin, Journalistin, Gründerin und Herausgeberin des feministischen US-Magazins „Ms“

 

  • Warum wird den Frauen nicht beigebracht, für sich selbst verantwortlich zu sein? Es wird ihnen nicht gelehrt, wie sie sich im Leben behaupten können, weil ihre Mütter es selbst nicht wissen und ihre Väter es nicht für nötig halten. Shirley Conran (*1932) britische Romanschriftstellerin, Journalistin, Tiger Eyes

 

  • Patriarchat bedeutet wörtlich:
    1. 'am Anfang der Vater' bzw. 'Vater-Gebärmutter'  
    2. 'Vater-Herrschaft' ist die zweite Bedeutung von archein.
Prof. Dr. Claudia von Werlhof (*1943) österreichische Professorin für internationale Frauenforschung, Universität Innsbruck

 

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Siehe Streisands Männerrolle im Film Yentl

  • Männer kann man überreden, Frauen muss man überzeugen! Barbra Streisand (*1942) US-amerikanische Sängerin, Schauspielerin, Musicalschauspielerin

 

  • Eine Frau wird an dem Tage dem Mann wirklich gleichberechtigt sein, an dem man auf einen bedeutenden Posten eine inkompetente Frau beruft. Françoise Giroud (*1916-2003) französische Journalistin, Bühnenschriftstellerin, Autorin, Politikerin

 

  • In einer Sache wenigstens sind sich Mann und Frau einig: Sie misstrauen den Frauen. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Journalist, Literaturkritiker, Kolumnist, Satiriker

 

  • Frauen möchten in der Liebe Romane erleben, Männer Kurzgeschichten. Daphne du Maurier, DBE (1907-1989) englische Schriftstellerin

 

  • Ach, Männer, Männer, welch ein Geschlecht! Weshalb protestiert ihr so gegen alle Bestrebungen, die Frauen zu einer höheren Bildungsstufe zu erheben? Nun gut, wenn es nicht mit euch sein kann, so wird es ohne euch und trotz euch geschehen. Malwida Freiin von Meysenbug (*1816-1903) deutsche Schriftstellerin, politisch Aktive, Förderin von Friedrich Nietzsche und Richard Wagner

 

  • Patriarchale Männer nehmen also das Denken für sich in Anspruch, vermeiden aber mit aller Kraft das Fühlen. Das führt, wie wir wissen, zu einer gewissen Denkunfähigkeit, weil die rechte und die linke Gehirnhälfte nicht mehr in Gegenseitigkeit funktionieren. Lässt du einen Acker brach liegen, fliegen die wilden Pflanzensamen auch auf das Nachbarland und verhindern eine gute Ernte. Mach' das 3000 Jahre und du hast die reinste Wildnis. Auf das Denkvermögen bezogen: Dummheit in höchster Potenz. Hannelore Vonier, deutsche Image-Beraterin, Feministin, Autorin, Gründerin der Webseite Matriarchat.info, freie Wissenssammlung über matriarchal lebende Ethnien

 

  • Die Frau ist das Andere. Der Mann ist die Norm. Elfriede Jelinek (*1946) österreichische Schriftstellerin, Literaturnobelpreisträgerin, 2004

 

  • Wenn jemand ein Schicksal hat, dann ist es ein Mann. Wenn jemand ein Schicksal bekommt, so ist es eine Frau. Elfriede Jelinek (*1946) österreichische Schriftstellerin, Literaturnobelpreisträgerin, 2004

 

  • Wir werden nicht als Frauen geboren, wir werden dazu gemacht. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) französische Schriftstellerin, Philosophin, Feministin der ersten Frauenbewegung

 

 

  • Der Prozess des Näherkommens an unsere Natur ist eine unruhige, chaotische Angelegenheit. Alle Frauen, die sich auf diesem Weg befinden, sind schwierig und anstrengend. Einige von uns können sogar ziemliche Nervensägen sein. Aber alle feministischen Nervensägen sind mir tausendmal lieber als alle angepassten Helferinnen der Männerwelt. Angelika Aliti (*1946) deutsche Frauenbuchautorin,  lesbische Feministin, Philosophin, Kulturschaffende, Theatermacherin

 

  • Das ist es, was man(n) den Frauen gesagt hat: Wenn ihr Feministinnen seid, werden euch die Männer nicht mehr lieben. Das stimmt nicht. Benoîte Groult (*1920) französische Schriftstellerin, Journalistin, Salz auf unsrer Haut

 

  • Bei Frauen gibt es so viel Hin und Her, so viel Unvermutetes, unbegreifliche Schlussfolgerungen, verkehrte Auslegungen, eigensinnige Entschlüsse, die unwiderruflich scheinen und aufgegeben werden, bloß weil ein Vögelein vorüberflog und sich auf einem Fenstersims niederließ. Guy de Maupassant (*1893) französischer Schriftsteller, Journalist, Die Reliquie

 

  • Da der weibliche Körper meistens nur von außen – nach der Figur, den Proportionen, den Kurven – beurteilt wird, sehen die Frauen sich selbst wie aus der Vogelperspektive. Sie sind daran gewohnt, sich von außen, aus einer gewissen Distanz zu sehen, aber selten spüren sie sich auch von innen. Wenn die Frau lernt, eine nährende Liebesbeziehung mit ihrem eigenen Körper aufzubauen und innerlich mit ihm zu verschmelzen, wird sie mit ihrer erwachten lebendigen Sinnlichkeit eine atemberaubende weibliche Ausstrahlung haben, die die ganze Atmosphäre um sie herum verändert.
    [...] Die weibliche Vagina ist der physische "Raum", in den der Mann eintritt. Und als Gegenpol dazu ist es die Frau, die den Mann physisch empfängt beziehungsweise ihn in sich hineinlässt. Diese beiden Funktionen – das Eintreten und das Empfangen – sind sehr verschieden voneinander. Der Mann ist der Gast, die Frau die Gastgeberin. Diana Richardson, US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Zeit für Weiblichkeit. Der tantrische Orgasmus der Frau, Innenwelt Verlag, 9. Auflage 2010, 15. September 2004

 

  • Die Masse ist ein Weib, und als solche mache ich sie mir gefügig. Adolf Hitler [Gefallen auf BW 45] (1889-1945) österreichisch-deutscher Diktator, Vorsitzender der NSDAP, „Führer und Reichskanzler“ des Dritten Reichs (1933-1945)

 

  • Durch Frauen werden die Höhepunkte des Lebens bereichert und die Tiefpunkte vermehrt. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) deutscher klassischer Gelehrter, Kulturkritiker, Philosoph des Nihilismus [BW 120]

 

Zitate von Frauen über Frauen

  • Sie halten die Welt zusammen. Frauen sind inspirierend, sie haben so viel Humor und besitzen oft großartige Seelen. Bei den Männern bin ich mir da nicht so sicher. Die Männer nehmen sich im Vergleich immer viel mehr zusammen und warten mit ihren Emotionen bis zur nächsten Geschäftsreise. Sigourney Weaver (*1949) US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, weiblicher Actionstar, Brigitte Nr. 21/2008, S. 88, 24. September 2008

Frauenfeindliche Zitate in der Bibel

  • Adamah = Ackerboden (Erde)
  • Chawwah = Eva (von chai: Leben)
  • Adam (3 Bedeutungen) =  1. Erdling, 2. Mensch, 3. Mann Adam
    • Adam als ungeschlechtlicher Erdling; Genesis 2, 5-21 (AT)
    • Adam als Mann; Genesis 2, 22- Genesis 3, 19 (AT)
    • Adam als Name Adam; ab Genesis 3, 20 (AT)
  • Isch = Mann
  • Ischah = Männin (Frau)

Zwei Versionen der Erschaffung des Menschen und zwei Schöpfungsgeschichten

  1. Die erste jüngere Schöpfungsgeschichte (genannt Priesterschrift): 1. Mose, Buch Genesis 1, 1-2, 4a
    Ebenbürtigkeit des Menschen und der Geschlechter (naturgegebene (Würde)
    Gott schuf also den Menschen als sein Abbild; als Abbild Gottes schuf er ihn. Als Mann und Frau schuf er sie. Genesis 1, 27 (AT)
    Mensch: männlich und weiblich bzw. als männlich-weiblich
  2. Die zweite ältere Schöpfungsgeschichte: 1. Mose, Buch Genesis 2, 4b-3, 24
    Erst- und zweitrangige Version (gewohnheitsmäßiger (Rankismus):
    Da sprach der Mensch (Adam): Das ist doch Bein von meinem Bein und Fleisch von meinem Fleisch; man wird sie Männin (Ischah) nennen, weil sie vom Manne (Adam) genommen ist. Darum wird ein Mann seinen Vater und seine Mutter verlassen und seiner Frau anhangen, und sie werden ein Fleisch sein. Genesis 2, 23-24 (AT)
    1. Mose, Genesis 2, 7-8, 15-22 (AT) – Adam ("Mensch") wurde als erster Mensch aus Erde („Adamah“) geschaffen und wohnt im Garten Eden. Eva ("Leben", "Chawwah"), der Seite/Rippe Adams entnommen, wurde als seine Gefährtin erschaffen.

 

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Paulinisches Christentum:

Paulus, Vertreter der rankistischen Schöpfung des Menschen (Mann vor Frau)

 

  • Ihr Frauen, ordnet euch euren Männern unter wie dem Herrn (Christus); denn der Mann ist das Haupt der Frau, wie auch Christus das Haupt der Kirche ist; er hat sie gerettet, denn sie ist sein Leib. Wie aber die Kirche sich Christus unterordnet, sollen sich die Frauen in allem den Männern unterordnen. St. Paulus von Tarsus, Brief an die Epheser 5, 22-24 (NT)

 

  • Ihr Frauen, ordnet euch euren Männern unter, wie es sich im Herrn geziemt. St. Paulus von Tarsus, Brief an die Kolosser 3, 18 (NT)

 

  • Eine Frau soll sich still und in aller Unterordnung belehren lassen. Dass eine Frau lehre, erlaube ich nicht, auch nicht, dass sie über ihren Mann herrsche; sie soll sich still verhalten. Denn zuerst wurde Adam erschaffen, dann Eva. Und nicht Adam wurde verführt, sondern die Frau ließ sich verführen und übertrat das Gebot. St. Paulus von Tarsus, 1. Timotheus 2, 11-14 (NT)

 

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Ätiologie:

Herkunft der Krankheit Frauenfeindlichkeit (BW 155-160)

  • Zur Frau sagte er: Groß, groß werde ich deine Mühe und deine Schwangerschaft machen. In Mühe wirst du Kinder gebären. Auf deinen Mann hin richtet sich dein Begehren. Er aber wird über dich herrschen.
    Zu Adam sagte er: Weil du auf die Stimme deiner ischah gehört hast und von dem Baum gegessen hast, auf den hin ich dir befohlen habe: Du sollst nicht von ihm essen! Verflucht ist die adamah deinetwegen. In Mühe wirst du von ihr essen alle Tage deines Lebens. Dornen und Disteln lässt sie dir wachsen. Und du wirst das Kraut des Feldes essen. Im Schweiß deines Angesichts wirst du Brot essen bis du zurückkehrst zur adamah, denn von ihr bist du genommen. Denn Staub bist du, und zum Staub kehrst du zurück. Genesis 3, 16-19 (AT)

 

  • Von einer Frau nahm die Sünde ihren Anfang, ihretwegen müssen wir alle sterben. Sirach 25, 24 (AT)

 

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Achtung:

Sexueller Missbrauch im Alten Testament

  • Dann entblöße ich ihre Scham vor den Augen ihrer Liebhaber. Niemand kann sie meiner Gewalt entreißen. Hosea 2, 12 (AT)

 

  • Und Abschalom, ihr Bruder, sagte zu ihr: Amnon, dein Bruder, war er bei dir? Und nun, meine Schwester, schweig! Dein Bruder ist er. Nimm dir diese Sache nicht zu Herzen. 2. Samuel 13 (AT)

 

  • Sie vergewaltigten sie und erniedrigten sie die ganze Nacht bis zum Morgen. […] Vor der Haustür des Mannes, bei dem ihr Herr wohnte, brach sie zusammen und bliebt dort liegen, bis es hell wurde. […] Als er nach Hause gekommen war, nahm er ein Messer, ergriff seine Nebenfrau, zerschnitt sie in zwölf Stücke. Richter 19, 25-29 (AT)

Wasser und Feuer – Frauen und Männer (Rumi)

 

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Auf diese Art sprach sie zärtlich und gewinnend; inzwischen wurde sie von Weinen übermannt.
Als die Tränen und Seufzer alle Grenzen überschritten – bei ihr, die auch ohne Tränen hinreißend war – [2420]
Leuchtete in diesem Regen ein Blitz auf, der einen Funken Feuer in das Herz des einsamen Mannes schoss.
Ihr schönes Gesicht macht den Mann zum Sklaven; wie wird es sein, wenn sie beginnt, die Sklavin zu spielen?
Ihr Stolz lässt dein Herz erzittern; was wirst du tun, wenn sie weinend vor dir niederfällt?
Ihre Anmut lässt dein Herz und deine Seele bluten; wie wird es sein, wenn sie sich auf Flehen verlegt?
Ihre Tyrannei und Grausamkeit hält uns gefangen, welche Ausrede bleibt uns, wenn sie zu bitten anfängt? [2425]
Verlockend ist den Menschen gemacht die Liebe für die Freuden an Frauen:
Gott hat es so eingerichtet; wie können sie vor dem fliehen, was Gott eingerichtet hat? [Koran III:14]
Da Er sie erschaffen hat, damit er ihr beiwohne, wie könnte Adam dann von Eva getrennt werden? [Koran VII:189]

[…]
Das Wasser beherrscht das Feuer, weil es das Feuer einschüchtert,
doch das Feuer kocht das Wasser,
wenn es [das Wasser] [in einem Kessel] verborgen ist.
[2430]

 

Wenn ein Kessel zwischen die beiden kommt,
vernichtet das Feuer das Wasser und verwandelt es in Luft.
Wenn du wie das Wasser deine Frau äußerlich beherrschst,
wirst du doch innerlich beherrscht und sehnst dich nach deiner Frau.
Das ist die Eigenschaft des Menschen; den Tieren fehlt die Liebe,
und das kommt von ihrer Minderwertigkeit.

 

Erklärung der Überlieferung:
"Wahrlich, sie (die Frauen) beherrschen den Weisen, und der Unwissende herrscht über sie."
Der Prophet sagte, dass die Frauen die Vernünftigen und die Herzensbesitzer beherrschen.
Andererseits herrschen die unwissenden Männer über die Frauen,
denn in ihnen ist die Wildheit des Tieres gefangen. [2435]
Es fehlt ihnen an Zärtlichkeit, Güte und Zuneigung, denn in ihrem Wesen herrscht Animalität vor.
Liebe und Zärtlichkeit sind menschliche Eigenschaften, Wut und Gier sind tierische Eigenschaften.
Die Frau ist ein Strahl Gottes, nicht diese irdische Geliebte.
Man könnte sagen, sie ist schöpferisch, nicht geschaffen."

 

Quelle: Rumi, Matnawi, Leseprobe Buch 1, Abschnitt Über die Frauen, 2524-2540

Das in Erniedrigung ausgetragene Menschentum der Frau

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Dieses
in Schmerzen und Erniedrigung ausgetragene Menschentum der Frau wird dann,
wenn sie die Konvention der Nur-Weiblichkeit in den Verwandlungen ihres äußeren Standes
abgestreift haben wird, zutage treten, und die Männer, die es heute noch nicht kommen fühlen,
werden davon überrascht und geschlagen werden. Eines Tages (wofür jetzt, zumal in den
nordischen Ländern, schon zuverlässige Zeichen leuchten), eines Tages wird das Mädchen
da sein und die Frau, deren Name nicht mehr nur ein Gegensatz zum Männlichen bedeuten wird,
sondern etwas für sich, etwas, wobei man an keine Ergänzung und Grenze denkt,
nur an Leben und Dasein: – der weibliche Mensch. [...]

Und auch im Manne ist Mutterschaft, scheint mir, leibliche und geistige [...].
Und vielleicht sind die Geschlechter verwandter als man meint, und
die große Erneuerung der Welt wird vielleicht darin bestehen, dass Mann und Mädchen sich,
befreit von allen Irrgefühlen und Unlüsten, nicht als Gegensätze suchen werden, sondern sich
zusammentun werden als MENSCHEN, um einfach, ernst und geduldig das schwere Geschlecht,
das ihnen auferlegt ist, gemeinsam zu tragen.

 

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) böhmisch-österreichischer Lyrike

 

Hymne an das ewig Weibliche

 

Ich bin erschienen
von Anbeginn der Welt.


Alles im Universum ist Werk der Vereinigung und Befruchtung – geschieht durch Sammlung der Elemente, die sich suchen und zu zweit miteinander verschmelzen und so wiedergeboren werden in einem Dritten (...)
Ich bin das verbindende Antlitz alles Seienden – ich bin der Wohlgeruch, der sie in Freiheit und Leidenschaft auf den Weg zu ihrer Vereinigung lockt und an sich zieht. Durch mich gerät alles in Bewegung und in Beziehung. Ich bin das wesenhaft Weibliche. Im Leben habe ich begonnen, mich zu offenbaren.
Wenn ein Mann eine Frau liebt, hat er zunächst die Vorstellung, er wende sich einem Einzelwesen zu, wie er selbst eines ist, einem Wesen, das er umgreift, so gut er es vermag, und das er frei sich zugesellt.
Während er mein Antlitz mit einem Nimbus umgibt, entdeckt er ein Strahlen, das sein Herz empfänglich macht und alle Dinge zum Leuchten bringt.
Dieses Strahlen meines Wesens schreibt er einer subjektiven Stimmung seines entzückten Geistes zu oder einem bloßen Reflex meiner Schönheit auf die tausend Facetten der Natur. Bald jedoch erstaunt er über das Ungetüm, das bei meinem Nahen in ihm aufbricht, und er zittert bei der Feststellung, dass er sich nur mit mir vereinen kann, wenn er sich zwangsläufig als Diener eines universellen Werkes der Schöpfung ergreifen lässt.
Er dachte, neben mir nur eine Gefährtin zu finden, doch wird er gewahr, dass er in mir die große geheimnisvolle Macht, die geheimnisvolle Verborgenheit berührt, die ihn unter dieser Gestalt ereilt, um ihn mit sich zu reißen.

 

Wer mich gefunden hat, steht am Eingang aller Dinge. (...) ich bin der Zauber der universellen Gegenwart und ihr vielgesichtiges Lächeln.
Ich bin der Zutritt zum Herzen der ganzen Schöpfung – das Tor zur Erde – die Initiation. (...) Wer mich nimmt, gibt sich mir hin, und er wird vom Universum ergriffen. (...)

 

Als er begriffen hat, dass ich für ihn das All war, hat er geglaubt, er könnte mich in seinen Armen umschließen.
Er hat sich mit mir in einer geschlossenen Welt zu zweit einschließen wollen, wo wir uns genügen würden (...)
Genau in diesem Augenblick bin ich in seinen Händen zerflossen (...) und es hat den Anschein erwecken können, als sei ich die Verderbnis der Menschheit – die Versuchung (...)
Von dem Augenblick an also, da ihr versucht mich festzuhalten und mich unter einer völlig fertigen Gestalt zu besitzen, erstickt ihr mich (...)
Ihr verderbt mich, ihr kehrt mein Wesen planmäßig um (...)
Ich verführe aber zum Lichte hin. Ich reiße mit fort, aber in die Freiheit (...) ich bin die unverwelkliche Schönheit der zukünftigen Zeiten, das weibliche Ideal.

 

Teilhard de Chardin, visionärer Theologe, Hymne an das ewig Weibliche, 19.-25. März 1918, Verzy, Frankreich

Der Einfluss der Frau

Der Einfluss der Frau
Ein frommer Mann hatte ein frommes Weib, aber sie hatten keine Kinder.
Da sprachen sie: Unsere Ehe bringt dem Heiligen, gelobt sei er, keinen Nutzen.
Und der Mann gab seiner Frau den Scheidebrief, und sie trennte sich von ihm.
Er heiratete in zweiter Ehe eine böse Frau, und die machte ihn zu einem Bösewicht.
Die Geschiedene wiederum heiratete einen bösen Mann
und verwandelte diesen in einen frommen.
Ob der Mann gottlos wird, ob der Mann fromm wird – alles bewirkt die Frau.
Talmud, Midrasch Bereschit r. 17, 7

Zitate von Männern zu frauenrelevanten Themen

Simon Petrus sprach zu ihnen: Maria (Magdalena) soll aus unserer Mitte fortgehen, denn die Frauen sind des Lebens nicht würdig.
Jesus sprach: Seht, ich werde sie ziehen, um sie männlich zu machen, damit auch sie ein lebendiger Geist wird, vergleichbar mit euch Männern. Denn jede Frau, die sich männlich macht, wird in das Himmelreich gelangen.
Das Thomas Evangelium, Übersetzung Wieland Willker, © 2002, Logion 114

 

  • "Ein Baum, der fällt, macht mehr Krach als ein Wald, der wächst." Tibetische Weisheit
    Was wir in den Geschichtsbüchern lesen, ist die Geschichte der fallenden Bäume. Das ist alles, was destruktiv war.
    Wer ist der wachsende Wald? Das sind unsere Frauen.
    Wir müssen genau auf die Gruppen gucken, die wissen, dass in der Kooperation die Rettung ist. Aber es geht langsam. Der wachsende Wald ist immer eine Art Heilungsprozess. Es heißt auch, dass wir auf ein höheres Niveau kommen.
    Video Konferenzvortrag von Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, deutscher Quantenphysiker für Elementarteilchenphysik und Gravitation, Universität München, "passionierter Grenzgänger", ehem. Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München, alternativer Nobelpreisträger, 30-Jahre-Feier des Right Livelihood Awards, veranstaltet von Germanwatch, Triodos Bank und Deutsche Telekom, Bonn, 16. September 2010, YouTube Film, The Great Transformation – 100% Future, Teil 2 von 2, Minute 11:18, 12:51 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 18. Oktober 2010

Zitate (engl.) von Frauen zu frauenrelevanten Themen

Avowals of women on their womanhood

  • I think that there is a new "third" phase to the women's movement. [...] This new [...] phase is about the drive to self-evolve and self-express, which is different from wanting equal rights in the masculine world. It's deeper, and it's motivated by a passionate love of our potential. Barbara Marx Hubbard barbaramarxhubbard.com (*1929) US American prolific futurist, writer, public speaker, co-founder and chairperson of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution

 

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Jane Fonda

  • Although I've always been financially independent, and professionally and socially successful, behind the closed doors of my personal life I was still turning myself in a pretzel so I'd be loved by an alpha male. I thought if I didn't become whatever he wanted me to be, I'd be alone, and then, I wouldn't exist. […]
    Early on in my third act [past age 60] I found my voice and, in the process, I have ended up alone but not really. You see, I'm with myself and this has enabled me to see feminism more clearly. It's hard to see clearly when you're a pretzel. Jane Fonda (*1937) Academy Award-winning US American actress, writer, political activist, former fitness guru, Jane Fonda's Speech at the National Women's Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C., 12. June 2003

 

  • I have been a ventriloquist for the patriarchy. Jane Fonda (*1937) Academy Award-winning US American actress, writer, political activist, philanthropist

 

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Coincidences and spiritual conversion

  • I began to feel that I was being led. Jane Fonda (*1937) Academy Award-winning US American actress, writer, political activist, philanthropist, My Life So Far, UCtelevision, UC Santa Barbara, series "Voices" 7/2006, Show ID:11755, 1. May 2006, YouTube film, starting at minute 1:02:31, 1:29:37 duration, posted 25. February 2008

 

  • I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin (1903-1977) French-Cuban author
  • All souls are feminine in the presence of the [decidedly male] Lord Kṛṣṇa. Mirabai [Meera] Hagiography (ca. 1498-1547) aristocratic Indian Hindu mystical singer, poet-saint, sahajiya devotee of Lord Krishna, influential in the Sant tradition of the Vaishnava bhakti movement

 

  • In government, in business, and in the professions there may be a day when women will be looked upon as persons. We are, however, far from that day as yet. Eleanor Roosevelt [LoC 495] (1884-1962) US American First Lady (1933-1945) supporter of her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies, advocate for civil rights, enhancer of the status of working women, chairwoman of the United Nations committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

  • The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. Maya Angelou (*1928) US American black author, poet

 

  • A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretence and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself. Maya Angelou (*1928) US American black author, poet

 

  • The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just, and peaceful life for all. Aung San Suu Kyi (*1945) Burmese opposition politician, leader of Myanmar’s democracy movement, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1991

 

  • Lucretia Mott called others into the battle against slavery. She did speak despite of the fact that at her time women weren’t supposed to open their mouths in public. Once she narrowly escaped an angry mob that burned to the ground in protest the building in which she spoke. Mott declared:
    Let us not hesitate to be the messiahs of our age.
    Her younger contemporary Elizabeth Cady Stanton recalls that Mott was "spoken of as a most dangerous woman [...] an infidel, a heretic, a disturber," because she took incredible risks to uphold what was then almost unimaginable — freedom for all human beings and the equal rights of women.
    To Stanton, this diminutive woman, who insisted on living in obedience to a spiritual truth higher than the laws of men, was like "a being from some larger planet" who offered "an entirely new revelation of womanhood."
    No wonder Mott’s public speaking, as one observer has said, was "so born of conviction, so radiant with [...] inward light" that it ignited social transformation by evoking a new consciousness. Elisabeth Debold, Ed.D., US American senior editor of EnlightenNext magazine, senior teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment, Where are the Women?, part 3, magazine Enlightenment Next, pg. 3, issue 32, March-May 2006

 

  • Three decades of research in state legislatures, universities, and international public policy centers have proven beyond doubt that women, children, and men all benefit when women are in leadership. Broader social legislation, benefiting everyone, is more likely to pass if women are in office. Elisabeth Debold, Where are the Women?, part 3, magazine Enlightenment Next, pg. 2, issue 32, March-May 2006
    Marie C. Wilson, US American advocate of women’s issues, founder and president emeritus of the White House Project

 

  • Education of girls is the key to development. Audio interview with Mary Robinson (*1944) first female Irish president (1990-1997), United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), Global Elder, Human Rights and Development, presented by Radio702, host John Maytham, aired 26. June 2010

 

  • The best way to tackle various problems associated with population explosion is to provide suitable education to girls. The Hindu, Indian newspaper, Friday, 28. July 2006

 

  • You are the caretaker of the generations, you are the birth giver, the sun told the woman. You will be the carrier of this universe. Lakota Sun Creation Myth

 

  • To be a role model is indelibly connected with having power, may this power be as relative as it may. Power is not a lesser taboo for women as it is for every suppressed group. Traditionally this has been no different for Jews and black people. Alice Schwarzer (*1942) leading German feminist, journalist, magazine editor

 

  • [Women are] left straddling two rather incompatible positions. Feminism and femininity are in a big catfight, nowhere more than within each individual female psyche. Laura Kipnis, US American professor of media studies, Northwestern University, The Female Thing. Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability, Vintage, 9. October 2007

 

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The Warren Buffet Rule:

75% of the US Americans support Buffet's rule which is millionaires and billionaires are to pay taxes as everybody else. The people who believe in ranking not linking are losing control.

  • No wonder corporations became legal persons in the 1800s with the right to make contracts while living breathing female human beings couldn't make contracts without their husband's written permission. Last year with a conservative Supreme Court [...] corporations became such legal paper people that they gained an unlimited right to fund independent political ads all under the right of First Amendment Free Speech. Well, if corporations are people, then some of them should be in prison. Though I oppose corporeal punishment for actual people I wouldn't mind putting a lot of them on Death Row. Video presentation by Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, writer, journalist, When Women Are People… and Corporations Are Not: Why the First Inequality Will Also Be the Last, presented by Bioneers Live, host Nina Simons, Bioneers Conference 2011, San Rafael, CA, 14. October 2011, Vimeo video, minute 24:20, 35:27 minutes duration, posted 10. November 2011

 

  • She will, of course, never 'Keep Out." For the dangerous old woman, goes where she wants, says what she wishes to say, and no one can stop her and no one ought try. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes (*1945) US American poet, post-trauma specialist, Jungian psychoanalyst

 

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The wounds of patriarchy:

The shaming of masculinity triggers violence the shaming of femininity triggers women's silence.


 

 

 

 

  • I think that the time is ripe to make fundamental changes in our civilization. But for real change we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power. And we need to nurture the feminine energy in mind of men. I am talking about men with young minds, of course. Old guys are hopeless. We have to wait for them to die off. Video presentation by Isabel Allende (*1942) Chilean US American writer, "magic realist" novelist, storyteller, on Tales of passion, TED Talks, minute 16:43,18:02 minutes duration, filmed March 2007, posted January 2008

 

  • I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. Isabel Allende (*1942) Chilean US American writer, "magic realist" novelist, storyteller

 

  • No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) US American nurse, sex educator, birth control activist, founder of the American Birth Control League

 

  • The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) US American writer, journalist, philosopher, activist for women's rights, Unitarian

 

  • Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list. Michelle Obama (*1964) first African-American US First Lady

 

  • One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. Michelle Obama (*1964) first African-American US First Lady

 

  • It is safe to say: 'I'm an Obama mama.'
    President Barack Obama, when still a candidate, admitted: My wife Michelle [the "Obama mama"] could give you a much longer list [on what I don't know and how will I earn it]. And most of the time I learn it by asking her. Michelle Obama (*1964) first African-American US First Lady, presented by The Daily Show, satirical TV news program, host Jon Stewart, Thursday 9. October 2008

 

  • I've got a loud mouth. I tease my husband. [...] He [her husband Barack Obama] is very able to deal with a strong woman. This is one of the reasons why he can be president because he can deal with me. TV interview with Michelle Obama (*1964) first African-American US First Lady, "Good Morning America", presented by Live Leak

 

  • [...] the truth is, I’m not supposed to be here, standing here. I’m a statistical oddity. Black girl, brought up on the South Side of Chicago. Was I supposed to go to Princeton? No. […] They said maybe Harvard Law was too much for me to reach for. But I went, I did fine. And I’m certainly not supposed to be standing here. Interview with Michelle Obama (*1964) first African-American US First Lady, Newsweek magazine, cover story The Real Michelle Obama, 25. February 2008

 

  • Girls tend to lose relationship with themselves at adolescence. They lose their voice. They choose relationship with a boy over relationship with self. Their visible public life becomes quite different than their internal personal life. [...] With boys, it happens at five, six. [...] They begin to shut down. They begin to become emotionally illiterate. They begin to become distant. They begin acting out in strange ways. [...]
    Girls have a decade before they lose their voice of owning who they are. [...] Patriarchy takes aim at girls' voices but it takes aim at boys' hearts. Jane Fonda (*1937) Academy Award-winning US American actress, writer, political activist, philanthropist, My Life So Far, UCtelevision, UC Santa Barbara, series "Voices" 7/2006, Show ID:11755, 1. May 2006, YouTube film, minute 31:11, 1:29:37 duration, 25. February 2008

 

  • Gender stereotypes aren't politically correct, but the research broadly finds that testosterone can make men more prone to competition and risk-taking. Women, on the other hand, seem to be wired for collaboration, caution and long-term results. Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, US American TV journalists, authors of Womenomics, Fixing the Economy? It's Women's Work, The Washington Post, 12. July 2009

 

  • This [Egyptian] revolution is one that is toppling the old patriarchy and has little chance of succeeding if women are not given a voice as an equal partner in society. "Arab women will no doubt change the world" tells me Dr. Jean Houston, one of the founders of the Human Potential Movement who consults with the UN and advises on our projects in the Middle East. Elza S. Maalouf (*1965) Arab-American futurist, cultural development specialist, president of the Center for Human Emergence Middle East, Arab-Style Democracy: The Answer to the Post Dictatorship Era, Huffington Post, 100th International Women's Day, 8. March 2011

Zitate (engl.) zu spirituellen Frauenthemen – Lucia René

Personal avowals

  • Lucia René: [W]e live in a time where we stand with one foot in both worlds: in the old era that is going away and in this new era which already present. We don't have to wait for 2012 for this new world of heart-based energies and masculine / feminine balance. It is possible – I have discovered through my work – to take up residence there now. And when you can do that you more or less stand at the eye of the patriarchal storm and it is directly related to how unplugged you are from the patriarchal values. Web radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging The Patriarchy, presented by web radio program Inner Speak News Soul Adventures, host Jean Adrienne, minute 51:54, 54:02 minutes duration, aired 13. April 2010

 

  • Lucia René: I have felt a huge shift in this year [2011]. There is an openness that I am feeling that is coming into my attention field from the masculine that is so welcoming and so beautiful. Video interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Project Avalon, host Bill Ryan, YouTube film, minute 0:45:25, 1:24:22 duration, posted 27. March 2011
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Women must act first.

  • All over the planet women are indeed standing in their power. [...] If you are in relationship [with a man] you have to be willing at this stage as a woman to do what you know you are being asked to do, to do what is right [...] for the planet. And what is right for the planet at this point is for the masculine and feminine energies to be rebalanced. Women must act first. [...] We live in a repressive society where women have been taught that they are second-class citizens. And those who have perpetrated repression never come throughout history to the repressed and say 'I am so sorry. I have a change of heart. I am going to let you be an equal now.'
    The repressed must rise up which does not mean violently. It simply means in integrity. It means energetically. It means in terms of consciousness.
    You must be willing as a woman to stand as who you are and have the forbearance to allow the men in your life to react to you because only when the men are allowed to react to you will they be able to balance the masculine and feminine within themselves. They must reclaim that which they perceive as feminine. It's an extremely difficult thing for men to do. The wounding of the masculine has been in some ways more horrific than the wounding of the feminine during the patriarchy. They have their emotional bodies completely shut down. They have a male ego structure that won't allow them to look at this. The kindest thing that a woman can do for the man in her life for the next year and a half probably is to stand and allow him to react and to help him through her heart to find his own way. But the reaction has to happen [...] and the reaction is going to happen globally. Web radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplug from the Patriarchy! Women You Have The Power Now!, presented by Blogtalkradio station Snap Out Of It, host Dede Murcer Moffett, minute 35:44, 60:13 minutes duration, aired 3. August 2010

 

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Women standing in their power

  • Women are now on the frontlines of consciousness. Until women reclaim their power, throw off their conditioning of being second class citizens, and really move out on the frontlines men won't have a chance to react to that and to open up the emotional body and to process their reaction to the second class citizen. Now we are coming into equality. [...]
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Clarification:

Dignity is not right or left, white or black, male or female, conservative or progressive. It's nonpartisan. The more accurate term for "egalitarian society" is dignitarian society.

The oppressed must throw off the yoke and say 'No more! I am going to stand!' [...] If I simply stand and I meet your energy with exactly the right amount of energy that you are projecting at me to counter it. [...] It is very gandhiesque what I am proposing that women simply stand and allow men to react, allow men to process what they need to process in order to reclaim their heart and come into a more humble state of mind where they are ready, willing, and able to come to the table and accept women as equals and to co-create an egalitarian society. [...] Everyone is needed. There's no right and wrong here. We have all bought into this out of balance system. But really, it is women who must make the first move and be strong enough to allow men to then react against that. Video interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Project Avalon, host Bill Ryan, YouTube film, minute 0:41:25, 1:24:22 duration, posted 27. March 2011

 

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Women's natural leadership qualities

  • Women are better equipped in most cases to lead. [...] Really, to lead is to serve. To rule is to serve. That used to be the definition of royalty. [...] To lead is to create a situation where you are holding an energetic configuration in which everyone feels like they are equal and they have something to offer and they feel empowered. The true leader is someone you wouldn't think of as a leader. Women are intrinsically more capable of wielding power in a balanced way. Video interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Project Avalon, host Bill Ryan, YouTube film, minute 1:01:51, 1:24:22 duration, posted 27. March 2011

 

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The solar and lunar feminine

  • The book refers to true power for women as the “solar feminine.” The solar feminine is embodied by “strength, passion, creativity, and action.” Under the patriarchal system the type of femininity that was acceptable was the “lunar feminine” marked by qualities of gentleness, receptivity and nurturing. All wonderful qualities just not a complete picture of true empowered femininity. Interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, author of Unplugging the Patriarchy, 2012 is Coming: Are You Ready to Embrace Heart-based Consciousness?, Melissa Wadsworth, 11. March  2010

 

 

  • As women reclaim the solar energies within (action, passion, creativity, strength), men can relax out of the responsibility of holding the solar energy on the planet and feel supported in reclaiming their lunar side (receptive, nurturing, quiet, yin). Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Facebook comment, 3. April 2011

 

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Different tasks for women and men

  • Women and men have very different jobs to do at this time in history if they want to rebalance the feminine/masculine energies within. It is time for women to reclaim their power and move forward onto the front lines of consciousness. This means throwing off their conditioning as second-class citizens, standing as the powerful beings they are, and speaking and acting their truth. Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Facebook comment, 12. April 2011

 

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Collective apology from men to women

  • Bill Ryan, minute 0:47:25: [Referencing South Africa's Apartheid (microcosm for the entire patriarchy) and Truth and Reconciliation Commission ]
    Bill Ryan, minute 0:48:05: You're almost envisioning something like this [South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission – for gender reconciliation] [...] in some way men or the collective body of men [...] [would] say: 'This is what we have done. This is what it really is.' [...] [leading up to] this huge kind of apology or an acknowledgement of their [men's] role in this group learning.' Do you think that is possible?
    Lucia René: Oh God, I hope so. Video interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Project Avalon, host Bill Ryan, YouTube film, 1:24:22 duration, posted 27. March 2011

 

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Men are more challenged than women.

  • Abuse of power is one aspect of learning about power. [...] Men are having a very difficult time giving up the ways of patriarchy. [...] The way history works is that the oppressor never comes to the oppressed. [...] Men are never going to come to women and say: 'We're sorry, we have conditioned you to be second class citizens for 5000 years.' [...]
    Women are at the front lines now. [...] Women who have been oppressed must be willing to stand up in their power [...] until the patriarchal world falls [...] and then to begin rebuilding in the new. [...] In the next three years until women are willing to stand in their power men will not [...] be able to process and balance the masculine and feminine within themselves until they experience at a visceral level the power of women full blown in the world. [...]
    Women's job is to understand with enormous

 

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Paradigm shift

  • Men are having a very difficult time right now giving up the ways of patriarchy. [...] Abuse of power is one aspect of learning about power. […] We are at a period of time where we extremely out of balance and we are learning now about the abuse of power. […]
    The way history works is that the oppressor never comes to the oppressed [to apologize and making amends]. [...] Men are never going to come to women and say: 'We're sorry, we've conditioned you to be second class citizens for 5000 years.' […] The slaveowners would never have gone to the slaves. [...] The blacks had to stand up. It's absolutely crucial. It's just the way the dynamic works. […] Women are on the front lines now. Women are being asked to stand. And it is the kindest thing they can do for the men in their lives. It's going to create havoc. Men are going to respond to this crescendo of female power, but that's the only way they are going to be able to balance the masculine and feminine [energies] within themselves. There is a progression to the next three years.
    Women who have been oppressed must be willing to stand up in their power, to continue functioning however that plays out in a patriarchal world until the patriarchal world falls and then to begin rebuilding in the new at which point they [men] will take up the reins of power again, but in a more egalitarian society. At that point men will have learned about power and about abuse of power, and women will have learned about power and the abuse of power, and we will be able to coexist on equal terms.
    In the next three years until women are willing to stand in their power men can work on reclaiming the energy of the heart. They can work on honoring the feminine, but men will not be able to process and balance the masculine and feminine within themselves until they experience at a visceral level the power of women full blown in the world.
    If women want to be of service to the men on the planet it is our job to stand on our own and to understand with enormous compassion that the male wounding is VERY, VERY DEEP. [...] To be a man and to be asked to reclaim the energy of the heart is brutally difficult. It's easier for women to buck their conditioning and stand in their power than it is for men to reclaim the energy of the heart. Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, author of Unplugging the Patriarchy, excerpted from teleseminar Women on the Edge of Evolution, MP3, spring 2010

 

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Unplugging the patriarchal female – Restoring gender equality

  • We as women have to be very, very careful about who we climb in bed with. We have a rather delicate, loosely woven and very refined subtle body. When we are with a man who is not in a very high place of consciousness, who is not totally respectful of the feminine, who has not worked that out within himself then great damage can be done. […] When a man who is not pure thrusts into your [the female] body he is thrusting into the subtle physical. And if there is a lot of violent male energy in his aura it is like a hypodermic needle going right into you and it's incredibly damaging. [...]
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Personal avowal:

This is why [my spiritual teacher] Rama encouraged me and some of his other women students to be celibate for many years, just to explore what it is like to be on your own and completely self-sufficient.

[Women are remembering] relationships of equals that existed in the Atlantean cycle. We are coming to gender equality with this ascension process. We are balancing out the masculine and the feminine. With the men who choose to ascend there will ultimaltely be total respect for the feminine because they [men] will have total respect for the feminine within themselves. Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, author of Unplugging the Patriarchy, excerpted from teleconference MP3, one third into the call, aired 1. August 2010

 

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Spirit induced transition

  • This transition is going to happen whether we want it or not. It's the work of Spirit. [...] The more women and men who are willing to do this inner work the more we can soften the fall of the patriarchy. And we do that by simply starting by ourselves and by women collaborating. Web radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplug from the Patriarchy – women standing in their power, men tending the heart, presented by Blogtalkradio station Freedawn Radio, host Glenna Mageau, minute 45:46, 59:49 minutes duration, aired 12. May 2010

 

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Successful experiment in consciousness

  • Inner message from Spirit during a meditation: "Tell people that the experiment of consciousness on planet Earth has been a success. Now is the time to dance." Web radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Lucia René – Interview, presented by KRUU The Voice of Fairfield Writer's Voices (54.86 MB), host Monica Hadley, minute 42:44, 59:55 minutes duration, aired 30. April 2010

 

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Essential decision

  • Every human being faces a choice:
    • Do you remain aligned with the 3D, fear-based, male-dominated, patriarchal society?
    • Or, do you take up residence in the new multi-dimensional, love-based, egalitarian paradigm that has come online?
We need to give each human the time and space needed to make that choice. And, unless someone seeks out your help, there’s really not much you can do to assist.
Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Facebook comment, 14. April 2011

 

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Divine Power / Will

  • To wield power is to align with Divine Will. Web radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, A Novel Way to Move Beyond the Patriarchy, presented by web radio program Emotionalpro, host Ilene Dillon, minute 48:25, 60:11 minutes duration, aired 18. March 2010

 

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Collaboration vs. cooperation

  • Collaboration is something different than cooperation [making mutual deals to ensure coexistence]. [Collaboration] is about moving the personal self out of the way and allowing the Divine Feminine Energy to come through the circuit of female collaboration that is formed when multiple women come together. This is really the Divine Will. Web radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, A Novel Way to Move Beyond the Patriarchy, presented by web radio program Emotionalpro, host Ilene Dillon, minute 50:00, 60:11 minutes duration, aired 18. March 2010

 

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Cocreating with Divine Power / Will

  • I believe women are being asked to collaborate at this time. [...]
    We entered a time when we as women – and soon the men as well – have this ability to co-create with Mother Divine, but it means that we must put our personal agendas, our personal desires and aversions out of the way. And the way we do that is by investigating them and finding the fear at the bottom of those conditioned patterns and moving them through the heart and bringing them to rest. If we can bring them to rest enough times then finally they drop and we are able more and more to stand in our power. [...] Then miracles can happen. Web radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, A Novel Way to Move Beyond the Patriarchy, presented by web radio program Emotionalpro, host Ilene Dillon, minute 49, 60:11 minutes duration, aired 18. March 2010

 

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Kali Yuga

  • We’re at the end of a cycle. All of you have known this since childhood. The Hindus call it the Kali Yuga, the Dark Age. At the end of a cycle, Shiva, the Hindu lord of death, dances. At the end of a cycle, certain energetic configurations go away and others come into being. Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy. A Mystical Journey into the Heart of a New Age, Crown Chakra Publishing, 1st edition, 21. December 2009

 

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Ending of the reign of darkness

  • We're at a stage when darkness is no longer acceptable on this planet. And darkness is being given its ultimatum. We are not at a bargaining table here. [...] You go to this being [embodying the darkness] and say 'Your time is up.' Video interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Project Avalon, host Bill Ryan, YouTube film, minute 0:50:33, 1:24:22 duration, posted 27. March 2011

 

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Thinking

 

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Attachment

 

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Transitioning

  • You’re perfectly capable of surfing the tsunami of change that is currently sweeping the planet, you know. You wouldn’t have chosen to be here at the end of a cycle of time if you weren’t geared for high-speed change. Lucia René, US American mystic, Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Facebook comment, 24. May 2011

Zitate (engl.) zu Frauen im Geschäftsleben / Women in Business

  • According to the Department of Commerce, the number of women-owned businesses increased 44% from 1977 to 2007 and added 500,000 jobs.
    Meanwhile, the number of men-owned businesses increased just 22% and lost 2 million jobs.
    Women-owned businesses are customer-centric.
    Women are the market, responsible for 85% of consumer spending.
    Women thrive in complexity.
    Women’s minds are web-like, adept at dealing with non-linear, disruptive patterns.
    [Women] don’t think that there is just one answer to any problem.
    Margaret Heffernan mheffernan.com, US American international businesswoman, writer, Why Women Make Better Business Owners, presented by bnet.com, 2. November 2010

Zitate von Männern (engl.) zu frauenrelevanten Themen / Men on Women and Female Issues

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See also:

The Gospel of Thomas, translated by Thomas O. Lambdin

Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary (Magdalene) leave us, for females are not worthy of life."
Jesus said, "Look I shall guide her to make her male so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males.
For every female who makes herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
The Gospel of Thomas, verse 114, translation by Elaine Pagels and Marvin Myer, cit. in: Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief. The Secret Gospel of Thomas, pg. 241, Random House, 1st edition, 6. May 2003

 

The best men are those who treat their wives well. Koran, Muhammad [Fallen LoC 130] (570/571-632 BE) Saudiarabian founder of the religion of Islam setting the stage for gender equality

 

Personal avowals

  • The outstanding impression my mother has left on my memory is that of saintliness. She was deeply religious. She would not think of taking her meals without daily prayer. She would take the hardest of vows and keep them without flinching. Illness was no excuse for relaxing them. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter

 

  • I began work among women when I was not even thirty years old. There is not a woman in South Africa who does not know me. But my work was among the poorest. The intellectuals I could not draw [...] you cannot blame me for not having organized the intellectuals among the women. I have not the gift [...] but just as I never fear coldness on the part of the poor when I approach them, I never fear it when I approach poor women. There is invisible bond between them and me. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter

 

  • If I could awaken the women of Asia, I could save India in a day. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter

 

  • I long ago called for a revolution led by women. TV video interview with Desmond Tutu (*1931) South African anti-apartheid activist, first black now retired Anglican Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Why Women Should Rule the World, World Affairs Council Northern California, presented by Link TV, host Jane Wales, CEO and president, minute 0:43, 10:33 minutes duration, recorded April 2008

 

  • The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. Albert Einstein [LoC 499] (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics

 

 

  • I've been advocating for years that I think men all over the world should be barred from holding public [political] office at any level for a hundred years. [...] Then you'd have a much kinder, gentler world almost immediately. Military budgets would be dramatically cut back and more money would be spent on health care and welfare and education. The things that we really need to be spending it on. [...] I mean, I'm deadly serious about this. This would work. And it's easy to do. You just pass a law. What you would do is, as men come up for re-election they couldn't stand for re-election. The women would be the only ones that could run. TV interview with Ted Turner (*1938) US American media mogul, entrepreneur, billionaire, philanthropist, presented by TV station CBS, Late Show, host David Letterman, 21. September 2006, cited in: Newsbusters, 22. September 2006
    • I've said for years and I'm really serious about it, I think men should be barred from holding public [political] office for a hundred years. They have been running the world for the last thousands of years and they've mucked it up something awful. I built my business surrounding myself with women. I find women more superior to men in business. Ted Turner (*1938) US American media mogul, entrepreneur, billionaire, philanthropist
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Root of inequality:

Gandhi often confirmed that the paternal society is the root of inequality. In his autobiography is a touching chapter about when he asked his wife to clean a public toilet and the resulting conflict between him and his wife. He felt ashamed about it, and from then on he took care to not humiliate her anymore for the rest of his life.

  • Intellectually, mentally, and spiritually, woman is equivalent to a male and she can participate in every activity. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter; cited in: Jyotsna Kamat, Gandhi and Status of Women, last update 11. May 2008

 

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Gender disparity:

Gandhi criticized Indian's passion for male progeny.

  • Womanhood is not restricted to the kitchen. Only when the woman is liberated from the slavery of the kitchen, that her true spirit may be discovered. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter; cited in: Jyotsna Kamat, Gandhi and Status of Women, last update 11. May 2008

 

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Women ante portas

Western women can come to the rescue of the world, originally printed in Vancouver Sun, Victor Chan, 25. January 2010

 

  • Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates [LoC 540] (469-399 BC) Greek pre-Christian philosopher

 

  • He who loves a woman, and brings her life to present realization in his, is able to look in the Thou of her eyes into a beam of the eternal Thou. Martin Buber [LoC 530] (1878-1965) Austrian-born Jewish religious philosopher

 

  • Clever men place the world into cages, but the wise woman who must duck under the moon throws keys to the rowdy prisoners. Hafez (1325/26–1389/90) Persian lyric poet, Sufi mystic

 

  • Women should rule the world. Desmond Tutu (*1931) South African anti-apartheid activist, first black now retired Anglican Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa

 

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Lysistrata strategy:

Overseeing the peace talks in Burundi, rebels refusing to come to the table, Nelson Mandela asked the women to withhold conjugal rights.

  • In the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, the women of Athens refuse to do anything for their men – including making love – to get them to stop fighting the Spartans. Nelson Mandela [LoC 505] (*1918) former South African anti-apartheid activist, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), Mandela tells wives to go on strike, The Telegraph, 28. April 2011

 

  • If women ran the world, there would be no wars. Winston Churchill [LoC 510, influence LoC 500] (1874-1965) British prime minister

 

  • The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund Freud [LoC 499] (1856-1939) Austrian neurologist, deep psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis, critic of religion, cited in: Alfred Jones (1879-1958) British neurologist, psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud’s official biographer, Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. Vol 1: The Young Freud 1856-1900, Hogarth Press, London, 1953

 

  • We now live in a world that is saturated with images. As a result, we're seeing an extraordinary surge of the feminine coming back into our society with women becoming priestesses again, being elected as judges and law makers. This pattern will continue because we've shifted from a text based society to an image based one. Kofi Annan (*1938) Ghanaian diplomat, seventh United Nations Secretary-General (1997-2006), founder of the Global AIDS and Health Fund, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2001, BBC News, 30. April 2007

 

  • There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. Discrimination against women of all ages deprives the world's children – all of them, not just the half who are girls – of the chance to reach their potential.
Statistics: The UNICEF report points to a greater lack of opportunities for girls and women in education and employment, which contribute to disempowerment and poverty. UNICEF estimates that gender equality in family decision making in South Asia would lead to 13.4 million fewer malnourished children. Kofi Annan (*1938) Ghanaian diplomat, seventh United Nations Secretary-General (1997-2006), founder of the Global AIDS and Health Fund, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2001, BBC News, 30. April 2007

 

  • The equality of men and women begins at the highest possible level: G-d. In Judaism, unlike traditional Christianity, G-d has never been viewed as exclusively male or masculine. Judaism has always maintained that G-d has both masculine and feminine qualities. As one Chassidic rabbi explained it to me, G-d has no body, no genitalia, therefore the very idea that G-d is male or female is patently absurd. We refer to G-d using masculine terms simply for convenience's sake, because Hebrew has no neutral gender; G-d is no more male than a table is. Both man and woman were created in the image of G-d. According to most Jewish scholars, "man" was created in Genesis 1, 27 (OT) with dual gender, and was later separated into male and female. The Role of Women, presented by JewFAQ.org

 

  • If ever the world sees a time when women shall come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it would be a power such as the world has never known. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) British poet, cultural critic

 

  • A lot of women think the feminine to be weak. [...] The feminine is not weak. She is incredibly powerful. Women are changing their minds about how powerful their female really is. When women change their minds men follow. [...] The female guides, the masculine takes action. Men follow women. [...] If you are guiding us to be better men and more in touch with the feminine everyone is gonna win. Video interview with  Paul Lawrence Curtis, English artist, painter, Balance between Male and Female energy – How and why?, presented by host Lilou Macé, YouTube film, minute 5:00, 24:29 minutes duration, posted 13. May 2011

 

  • The world is in such a mess now. There will never be leadership from men, because there are too few men who think like David Suzuki. So we’re fucked. The only hope is women; I really believe it. By using technology to communicate with one another, women can start to change the world. They should make use of everything that connects people – the internet, telephones, television, writing, singing. Women have to somehow unite and take control of the world. And the only way they can do it is by withholding sex from men.
    That’s the only way you can control men, to not allow them access to you unless they behave right.
    These are not original thoughts. If women were to band together and control men in this way, it would be at the risk of their own well-being, because the men would go around raping everybody. So women not only
    1. have to become strong,
    2. they have to be protective of each other and
    3. they have to be aggressive.
Well, that’s an awful lot to ask overnight. But it’s gotta happen soon.
Mothers are less likely to build bombs and drop them. Women are less liable to want their children to go to war. Women are less likely to knowingly pollute where they know their children are going to have to live. Mendelson Joe (*1944) Canadian mixed-media artist, singer-songwriter, guitarist, painter, raconteur, railer, Alien. The Strange Life and Times of Mendelson Joe, 2000

 

  • Women as both wage earners and homemakers feel the contradictions more in our society. They feel more subtle, institutional discrimination. If a society inherits dysfunctional institutions then it is often the people with intelligence, skills, and an alternative perspective who are going to come up with better answers, rather than the people who have inherited positions that were already favored. In these cases, it is women who will play an increasingly important role. Besides this, approximately 80 percent of the people in the Western world are concerned that their children will inherit a worse world than the one in which they grew up. People tend to do for their children what they wouldn’t do for themselves. Women, especially, will push for change and for a better world because of their children. Interview with Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., US American sociologist, founding partner of Integral Partnerships, consultant of Cultural Creatives, How 50 Million People Are Changing U.S. Business, Society, and Politics, US magazine Paraview, Alexander M. Dake, 2002

 

  • In all your amours you should prefer old women to young ones. Benjamin Franklin ['The First American'] (1706-1705) US American polymath, political theorist, politician, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, author, Founding Father of the United States, Old Mistresses Apologue, 25. June 1745

 

  • Women's brains are made up of a big ball of wire. And everything is connected to everything.
    Men have scientific minds/brains filled with strictly separated boxes including the favored no-thing box for spacing out. [discovered in a study issued by University of Pennsylvania] Mark Gungor, US American pastor, comedian, marriage counselor, international speaker, Boxes vs. Wires, Humorous!, YouTube film, 7:51 minutes duration, posted 16. March 2009
    On the differences between male and female brains

 

  • A great man is a man whose wife is smiling, whose wife is happy, and not a man who's got a lot of money in the bank and whose wife is on Prozac. Shmuley Boteach (*1966) US American Orthodox rabbi, author, marriage counsellor, radio and television host, Respecting Our Women, Big Think, 8. January 2008  

 

  • Question: In A Whole New Mind. Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future1, you tend to refer to people as "she." Do you feel that globalization highlights the role of women? Do you also mean to imply that the androgynous side of the human spirit has some sort of advantage in the new economy?
    Pink: There is lots of evidence that people with more androgynous minds that can reason both in a typically "left-brain," masculine way and a typically "right-brain," feminine way have a comparative advantage in the modern economy. I think that a lot of the abilities that are often dismissed as "feminine" or "soft" — things like empathy, to some extent even creativity itself — are more valuable nowadays, and that might confer a slight advantage on women. But I think that the future does belong to people with androgynous minds, people who have that analytical capability but people who also have that artistic, empathic ability. Interview with Daniel Pink danpink.com (*1964) US American bestselling author, motivational speaker, chief speechwriter of Vice President Al Gore (1995-1997), The Changing Workplace, presented by eJournal USA, February 2006

 

  • A woman can change better than a man. A man sort of lives in jerks. Somebody dies, somebody’s born and that’s a jerk. He gets a farm or loses a farm and that’s a jerk. With a woman it’s all in one flow, like a stream – little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) US American writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, The Grapes of Wrath, novel, 1939

 

  • Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) US American science fiction writer

 

  • The big change that would occur if women were running the world on a daily basis instead of men, is the military budgets all over the place would be slashed maybe to nothing, and a lot more money would go into education, health care, family planning, the things that really matter because women don't have as much testosterone as men. I mean, they don't want to start wars all the time. Women really would rather have things be peaceful. [...] And this one really could be done very quickly and very easily. All we have to do is change the laws, and in a hundred years then men can run again. And I think if we don't do something like that, we're going to have a nuclear, full-scale nuclear war at some point, or with global climate change, we're going to turn the world into such a hot house it will be unfit for humans to live in. So we need to change the way we're doing things right away and give some new ideas a chance or we're sunk. TV interview with Ted Turner (*1938) US American media mogul, entrepreneur, billionaire, philanthropist, presented by TV station CNBC, program The Big Idea, host Donny Deutsch, cited in: Ted Turner: Give Muslim Extremists What They Want to Stop Terrorism, presented by Newsbusters'', Brad Wilmouth, 30. September 2006

 

  • Men are ridiculous. Women are far better people. Much wiser (not difficult) and with a temperament to deal with life's complexities and men's abrasiveness. [...] So I think it's about time women took over. What they have to put up with is beyond belief. Pathetic, bullying men who throw their weight about (and there's usually a lot of it) in a vain attempt to prove they're superior when, in truth, they know they're not. Michael Winner (*1935) British film director, producer, Why I wish women DID rule the world: As Martin Amis said it's time men took a back seat..., dailymail.co.uk, 13. July 2010

 

  • The one thing that is assured to bring prosperity to a nation is the empowerment of women. Christopher Hitchens (*1949) English-American atheistic author, journalist

 

  • The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous toy. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, critic of culture, philosopher of nihilism [LoC 120], Thus Spoke Zarathustra [Also sprach Zarathustra], "Old and Young Women", part II, chapter 18, 1885

 

  • If I asked you about women you'd probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. [...] you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Knowing someone could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you [...] who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it’s like to be her angel and to have that love for her to be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. You wouldn't know about sleeping sittin’ up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term visiting hours don't apply to you. Transcripted from the movie Good Will Hunting, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; scene: psychiatrist Sean and young genius Will sitting together on a park bench in Boston.
    Good Will Hunting – Park Scene, YouTube film, minute 1:20, 4:46 minutes duration, posted 23. July 2007

A woman's highest calling is to lead a man to his soul, so as to unite him with Source;
her lowest calling is to seduce, separating man from soul and leave him aimlessly wandering.
A man's highest calling is to protect woman, so she is free to walk the earth unharmed.
Man's lowest calling is to ambush and force his way into the life of a woman.
Wisdom of the Cherokee, Indian tribe

Zitate (engl.) zu Frauenthemen u.m. / On men, women, gender and sexuality – Frederick Lenz [Rama]

Personal avowals

  • My position on women's liberation is that each individual woman can make a tremendous difference. I think that each woman has to feel that she represents all women, and that the way she conducts her life and whether or not she takes an active interest in her own liberation will affect all other women. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, source unknown

 

  • I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love, what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, Sexuality, presented by ramaquotes.com

GENDER

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Basic gender equality

See also: Gender research

  • Men are not better, women are not better. […] We're all following the path to light. But we have to understand the operative conditions of the universe. It's men who make the wars, it is men who are interested in hatred and killing. By and large. […] It is because men are afraid of women. If they would accept their female side, their female side, their femaleness, then there would be a balance. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 17:27

 

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Balancing and transcending gender roles

See also: Gender research

  • [T]here is no difference between men or women at the deepest levels. The particle of being that is our existence is both male and female. [...] The physical bodies and the subtle physical bodies of a man or a woman are very different and affect us. The subtle physical bodies are composed of luminous fibers of light. A man's subtle is more fixed. A woman's subtle is more pliant, can retain light and change more easily. [...] At the deepest levels there is no difference. We are all one.
    As either a man or a woman, there is neither or both, you need to harmonize yourself with eternity. […] Whether you are homosexual or gay or whatever it really doesn't matter a bit. What matters as a man or a woman is that you see that you are not a man or a woman. You are both. And that you create a balance on both sides of your being. And it's necessary to do a little work at the side that you have been neglecting. As you do that you become stronger and stronger and stronger. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 2:11 and 46:55

 

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Enlightenment transcends gender tracks

  • The [gender] situation is bad – it's bad for men, and it's bad for women. [...] Men are suppressing women [politically, philosophically, socially, economically, educationally, spiritually] and women are suppressing men [responding with the second attention for their survival]. [...] The pain has been greater for women, because some men are able to draw back when they recognize that level of manipulation [extended by women] and they resist it. [...] Thus many spiritual teachers who have mostly taught men have said, 'Stay away from women'. [...] They see the ability of women to use the second attention and realize that if a man becomes overly involved in relationships enlightenment is not possibl because he is directing too much attention to duality and not to enlightenment. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 39:30 and minute 40:55

 

  • The solution is not easy, either for men or for women. Two people are fighting each other. They are so busy fighting each other that they don't realize that they could be inspiring each other, or giving each other strength or learning from each other. […]
    What is necessary for a woman to attain enlightenment  is to undo everything what's been done. She will have to completely reexamine her life, her priorities, and specifically her use of the second attention, of course along with the physical attention, her sexual manipulation. […] She will have to realize that […] it will bring her no further, that she has to take that second attention which she's already developed and use it for spiritual pursuits.
    What a man must do is to realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma which is going to hold him back and already has. And he must be honest enough and have enough integrity to change the description of the world even though everyone else in the world may not feel that way. By doing this a man and a woman hey will not necessarily change the world but they will change themselves. They will enter into a state of balance. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 43:26

 

  • You have to become both a man and a woman [beyond the gender roles engendered by society] to be enlightened. Simply meditating is not enough. […] Selfless giving is not enough. […] If you give to others but still hold the ideas about the inferiority or superiority of women or men you will still be stuck. You must accept what is real and what is true. And to do that you must examine yourself, your history, and simply start to observe. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 45:30

 

MEN

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Emotional modus operandi of men

  • There is this idea that women are emotional and men are not. And that's how they act. But actually, it's not. It is quite the opposite. Men are much more emotional. They love much more quickly than women do. [...] What I am suggesting is the way we see men and women outwardly and the way they act in society is not the way they are inwardly. It's backwards. And that's why not too many people in this world attain enlightenment. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 24:57

 

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Sex reveals men's attitude towards women:

  • Many men have deep rooted problems regarding the status of women, and during sex these problems come out. They consciously or unconsciously project anger and hate towards women they have sex with. This energy enters a woman's subtle physical body and damages it. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher

 

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Men's liberation

  • Men, if they don't begin the spiritual process fairly early, tend to fall into the world of ego – very quickly. There is this need to fight your way to the top. Men become obsessed with power which is completely unnecessary and destructive for them. It is better for women to be obsessed with power. […] Later at about their 40ties, 50ties, and 60ties [a essential time for men] sometimes their interest in meditation will come forward again. […] But most men, if they don't catch it at that age, they will dive into maya. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 12:41

 

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Men are less afflicted by the world.

  • Men are not quite as affected by the (destructive) vibratory forces of the world as women are. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 14:29

 

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Recommendations for men

  • Being a man is a very noble thing, a very powerful thing, a very gentle thing. [...] As a man it is necessary to become loving and gentle and kind, to be as strong as you can be and to be a fearless warrior, but at the same time to be delicate, to work on your capacity to love purely, to not throw sexual vibrations at [everyone] someone because of the way they look. [...] It is quite harmful to them and to you [the man] because you put yourself in a very low plane of consciousness. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 45:40 and minute 51:11

 

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Spiritual work for men in liberation

  • If you're a man the best way to balance your energy is through love. […] Men have to soften their nature. It's necessary to practice the yoga of love and to loose interest in power and conquest. […] What you need to do is learn about surrender and selfgiving and humility and self-effacement, if you seek eternity. [...] It's important to work on the refinement of your nature and to meditate. [...] Meditate on love and on the heart. […]
    You need to learn to be a woman. You need to surrender, take eternity as your lover and just open yourself up to and let eternity do with you as it will. You need to become stronger and more patient. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 25:49

 

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Obstacles on the way to self-realization of men

  • This is still the age of men although the age of women is around the corner. […] The primary problem men may have in self-realization is a kind of a low masculine energy that lacks sincerity, the lockerroom mentality, a lack of caring, being obsessed with oneself and one's own destiny as opposed to a group destiny, the idea of being the maveric, the I'm-just in it for myself-mentality. It is best to meditate on love and the heart and just to learn to love more and more. And this will be a painful process for you because men have turned off their emotional selves [for the idea of being a man]. […] Allow the emotional whirlpools to open up within themselves. […] Practice kindness. […] To work on humility is the most important.
    Meditate, ground yourself in eternal light, and see yourself in a new way. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 30:10

 

WOMEN

  • Women tend to open themselves up more during sex. Because their subtle physical bodies are so much more sensitive they tend to pick up the total energy of the man they have sex with. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, Sexuality, presented by ramaquotes.com

 

  • It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher

 

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Denial of spirituality to women

  • Women have also been systematically been pushed out of spirituality by men. […] Even in the Bhagavad Gita [LoC 910], a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women along with animals are capable of attaining enlightenment. The idea is that to be a woman is a lower birth. But still, all can attain enlightenment if they truly aspire. So even in a high spiritual and philosophical book we see the concept, which is quite ridiculous, that to be a woman is in a lower birth, that to be a woman is is innately wrong in other words. You made a mistake somewhere and that's why you are born in the body of a woman. […] Women are cast into an image. That image is inferiority. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 41:48

 

  • If a woman places herself in an environment of light […] her growth will be tremendously fast. If she is in the opposite environment her descent will be very very quick. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 14:35

 

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Women dealing with other women

  • Women don't support other women. They are jealous, they're vindictive. Again, simply because they don't realize that they have enough power within themselves. To enjoy other women and appreciate them it is not necessary to compete over a male. What an absurd idea! Women should be sisters and unite and pool their energy. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 21:55

 

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Women in relationship with men

  • Women have to be very careful with their relationship with men. It's easier to have someone to make the decisions for you, but it's not, because then you're enslaved and you don't grow your own power, and you become weak. Women seem to have this idea to always be nice and allow people to walk all over them. You don't help men by allowing them to do that. All you do is fixate them in a bad consciousness. Whenever you allow someone to abuse you you don't help them, you are not a friend, because they are incurring bad karma. If you truly love someone, occasionally, you are being a little mean, if it's necessary. Or it may seem mean, it's not. […] You have to learn to become much more unattached. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 24:02

 

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Women's subtle body

  • The subtle physical body of a woman is very different than that of a man. The subtle physical body of men are much more denser, more tightly packed, fixed. The subtle physical body of a woman is much more pliant. [It is a better conductor of light]. It's much easier for a woman to absorb and to retain light and to change. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 4:07

 

  • Women need to work on power and claiming their power and bringing the power of the kundalini from the root chakra and bringing it right up to the top of the head and asserting themselves. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 25:54

 

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Recommendations for woman

  • As a woman you [are to] feel powerful, to feel strong, to bring the kundalini up [...], to assert yourself, yet to be inaccessible in a world that doesn't like women, to realize that most men hate women, because they are afraid of them, [...] the power of women, because they realize that women are much more powerful than men. And there is something in the unenlightened side of men that fears that power. It doesn't understand that if it would open themselves to that power that that power would enter them and help them in their liberation. Fearing that power they seek to put it down. And there is something in the unenlightened side of women that allows that to take place. It doesn't want responsibility. It wants someone to make the decisions. Ultimately that is not satisfactory because then a woman will be drained, tired and discouraged. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 50:11

 

  • As a woman you have to work on power, independence, self-confidence, supporting other women, and not always running to a man for justification, for condolence, for support. [...] You have to realize you have tremendous power in your being and you can bring that power into eternity. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 46:01

 

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Cultural error

Patriarchal conditioning of women

  • Everything is reversed in this age. Men appear to be more powerful than women while the opposite is really true. What appears to be light is dark and what appears to be dark is light. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1 minute 6:26

 

  • Women have a misunderstanding of their purpose as women. Women think of themselves as being women and they are not. Women have a preconceived notion of what it means to be a woman and this notion is incorrect. This notion has been given to them by our society, history, men and other women. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1 minute 5:55

 

  • For a woman to attain liberation she has to realize that she has everything she needs within herself. Women have become dependent upon men in our society. They feel that they have to draw power from a man. They build their identities around men, or around their children. And doing so they do themselves and all women, and men a great injustice. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 6:53

 

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Women's liberation

  • It is easier for women to attain to spiritual liberation than it is for men to do so. A woman’s subtle physical body accepts light in this world much more readily than does a man's. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 00:08

 

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Women and kundalini

  • Women access kundalini very easily, but women also pick up negative energy very easily and it affects them more than men. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, source unknown

 

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Women's subtle energy

See also: Energy and subtle energy

  • Women are essentially much more powerful than men are. The kundalini flows through them much more readily. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 5:24

 

 

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Sensitivity and intuition

See also: Sensitivity

 

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Women and power

  • Women must realize that power is their true aspect and support other women. If men see you a certain way, the image that is projected onto you is not your real self. You have to become commanding and assume responsibility for your power. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, source unknown

 

  • With women their subtle physical body fade away much faster in this world. While the strength of a women is the fact that her subtle physical body is pliant and conducts energy it's also the thing that is problematic for her, particularly in this age. […] The destructive vibrations are very powerful. […] Men are not quite as affected by the vibratory forces of this world as women are. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 13:45

 


 

SEXUALITY

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Sexuality – on the way to self-realization

See also: Sexuality

  • Sexuality is neither good nor bad. It depends how you approach it. Change is necessary. The most basic change that we make has to do with our sexual identity. Sex does not matter. It's not important, unless you make it important. People place much too great a charge on sexuality. It's not necessary to be celibate to attain enlightenment. It's necessary to be yourself. There will come a time though when you will probably be celibate for a while on your way to enlightenment in one incarnation or another. […] Then you'll return to relationships or sexuality perhaps when you have sufficient detachment so that it won't be sex anymore. When you're with someone it will be a giving, a pure self-effacement, pure giving, a transfer of energy. There won't be any desire. There will be no concern for the personal self or physical satisfaction. Then it can't be harmful. Your emotions won't get wrapped up. Every action will be service and self-giving. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 15:18 and minute 43:35

 

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Men's sexuality

  • [F]or most men sexuality is filled with violence. In the act of sex itself, while making love, men become very hateful. They very often hate the women they are making love to. [...] It is because men are afraid of the power of women. They sense this tremendous power and rather than helping to foster it or accessing it they want to cover it over. They are afraid of their own impotence. And the unrefined masculine energy enters easily into a woman, particularly during sex. [...] Women affix themselves very readily emotionally, much more so than men do. When a woman falls in love she will think of the man she is in love with constantly. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 15:23

 

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Self-actualizing men in relationship with women

  • In relationships with women it is necessary to be gentle and to foster the power of women, to realize that a great deal of wrong has been done [to women]. […] As a man who is working towards liberation you can aid women, mainly by leaving them alone and by not projecting sexual energy towards them. [...] It hurts her [subtle body]. [...] The macho image is absurd. [...] Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 26:38

 

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Women's sexuality

Caution: Demise of women's aura due to sexual contacts with men

  • If a woman kept her emotional relationships to a minimum and if she has relationships, sexual contact, to make sure that it is with a nice person, someone who is not sexually abusive, and most importantly for women is not allow herself to become emotionally wrapped up in a man or in men then she can retain the integrity of her subtle physical body. And with meditation that power will grow stronger every year. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 20:17

 

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Both genders fear sexuality.

Men fear impotence, women fear an overflow of sexuality.

  • Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence. Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it. And we live in a society that says they don't. And it's very incongrent because women are are told that they don't have sexuality, that men are sexual and women basically are not and actually quite the opposite is true in terms of the kundalini and the structure of the subtle physical [bodies]. Women are much more sexual – as Masters and Johnson have discovered – than men are and people are very put off by that. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, Sophisticated sexuality, minute 65:36, 73 minutes duration, 1983

 

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Male disdain damages the female subtle body.

  • The damage that occurs to the subtle physical body of a woman occurs in several ways. Most of it is sexual. Most women lose their power in sexual relationships or simply by being exposed to the lower sexual energies of men. Sexuality is neither good nor bad. It depends on how you approach it. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 14:54

 

Sources:

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Note:

It is easier for women to attain spiritual liberation than it is for men to do so.

Audio lectures by Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, The Lakshmi Series, FrederickLenzFoundation.org, 1 of 30 recorded talks, 1982-1983
1 Women / Men and Self Realization, 54:16 minutes duration

 

Audio lectures by Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence, FrederickLenzFoundation.org, 1 of 13 recorded talks, 1983

Humorvolle Zitate (engl.)

  • Men are stupid and women are crazy. And the reason women are so crazy is because men are so [...] stupid. George Carlin (1937-2008) controversial US American comedian

 

  • I got divorced recently. It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, he was Klingon. Carol Leifer

 

  • It's a man's world, but women are running it, secretly. Cheri Oteri

 

  • Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish dramatist, novelist, poet

 

  • Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled. Bon Jovi

 

  • Women might be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships. Sharon Stone, US American actress

 

  • Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse. Golda Meir, first Israelian Prime minister

 

  • If a man wants to truly communicate with a woman, he must enter her world of emotions. Gary Smalley

Liste der Nobelpreisträgerinnen (44 Frauen – Stand: 2011)

Physik

 

Chemie

 

Physiologie – Medizin

 

Frieden

 

Literatur

 

Wirtschaftswissenschaft

Englische Texte – English section on Women

Comparing male and female leadership qualities – Pew Survey 2008


Men vs. Women – Assessment of eight essential leadership qualities
2,250 surveyed adult US Americans voted:
Women express by far more specific leadership traits more explicitely than men.
ItemQualityVotes for womenVotes for menEqual votes for both genders
1.Honesty75%25%n/a
2.Intelligence75%25%n/a
3.Compassion75%25%n/a
4.Creativity75%25%n/a
5.Outgoingness75%25%n/a
6.Hard work50%50%YES
7.Ambition50%50%YES
8.Decisiveness39%61%n/a
2,250 surveyed adult US Americans voted: As for political leadership men are far more trusted than women.

Item
QualityVotes for womenVotes for menEqual votes for both genders
9.Political leadership6%21%69%

 

Source: Pew Research Center survey A Paradox in Public Attitudes Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader?, 25. August 2008

Too hard to control – Wangari Maathai


Wangari Maathai

Nine women out of 94 won the Nobel peace prize. Three of which are regular folk. Wangari Maathai is one of them. The first African woman who was honored by an international committee in 2004 for her endeavors in democracy, equal rights and the Green Belt Movement experienced thirty years of ridicule and barrage by the press. She was frowned at, beaten up by land owners, nearly murdered, imprisoned again and again, until the long term ruling party of Kenya was excelled, and the new one took her on as environmental minister.

 

In 1971 Wangari Maathai became the first woman in East and Central Africa to gain a PhD who subsequently lectured at the University College of Nairobi. When her husband ran for a political office in parliament she was wary of accusations of being "a white woman in black skin". Maathai recounts: "It was an unspoken problem that I and not my husband had a PhD and taught at the university." Trained as "a good African woman", she treated the supporters and detractors of her husband with respect.

 

After ten years of marriage her husband Mwangi Mathai, then a Member of Parliament, left her in 1977 and later divorced her, who was willing to reconciliate. He explained in public in 1980s:

"She was too educated, too strong-minded for a woman, too successful, too stubborn, and too hard for me to control."

 

Ninety percent of the members of Maathai's tree-planting movement were women. She said:

"The biggest impact of the ''Green Belt Movement is the sense of hope and power it gives to ordinary women.
The women respond so quickly to a common cause as they see it as a way to help the community at large."

Will versus willingness

Someone took a youth to a sage and said: Look, he is being corrupted by women.
The sage shook his head and smiled. It is men, said he, that corrupt women; and all the failings of women should be atoned and improved in men. For it is man who creates for himself the image of woman, and woman forms herself according to this image.

 

You are too kindhearted about women, said one of those present; you do not know them.
The sage replied: Will is the manner of men; willingness that of women. That is the law of the sexes – truly, a hard law for women. All of humanity is innocent of its existence; but women are doubly innocent. Who could have oil and kindness enough for them?

 

Damn oil! Damn kindness! Someone else shouted out of the crowd; Women need to be educated better!
Men need to be educated better, said the sage and beckoned to the youth to follow him. –
The youth, however, did not follow him.

 

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, critic of culture,
The Gay Science, First Book, Random House, New York, 1974

Water and Fire – Women and Men (Rumi)

* * *

Woman prevails over the wise and intelligent,
While, on the other hand, ignorant men prevail over woman,
for in them the fierceness of the animal is imprisoned.
They lack tenderness, kindness, and affection, because
animality predominates over their human nature.
Love and tenderness are human qualities, anger and lust are animal qualities.
Woman is a ray of God, she is not that earthly beloved:
she is creative, you might say she is not created.


The water prevailed over (extinguished) the fire
by its dread onset, (but) the fire makes it seethe
when it (the water) is screened (hidden in the cauldron).

Mathnawi Book 1 vv 2433-2437

 

Source: Discourses of Rumi, Hazreti Mevlana, mystic poet, Mathnawi Book 1 2524-2540, S. 18/74

 

Hymn to the Eternal Female

I appeared from the beginning of the world.

 

Everything in the Universe is a work of unification and fertilization – occurring through the gathering of the elements, who look for each other, melt together two by two and are thus reborn in a third. [...]

 

I am the uniting face of all existence – I am the god scent, attracting them in freedom and passion on the path to their union and to Myself.
Through me everything moves and relates. I am the female essence. In life I have begun to reveal my Self.

 


Iris, Georgia O'Keefe

When a man loves a women he has, first, the notion that he approaches an individual being, just as he is, who he embraces as well as he can, and who he joins with freely.
While he surrounds my face with a nimbus he discovers a radiation, making his heart receptive and all things shine.

 

He interprets the shining of my essence as a subjective reflection of his enthusiastic mind, or a mere reflection of my beauty on the multiple facets of nature. Soon, however, he is astonished by the monster emerging within him when I approach. He realizes that he can only unite with me if he allows himself the inevitability of touch, as a servant of the universal work of Creation.

 

He thought that, on my side, he would find a companion: but he realizes now that in me he touches the mysterious power, the mysterious secret that takes him.

 

Those who find me are standing at the entrance of all things [...]
I am the magic of the universal presence and its many-faced smile.
I am the access to the heart of All Creation – the gateway to the Earth – the initiation [...]

 

Those who take me surrender to me and will be taken by the Universe [...]

 

When he realized that I was the Universe for him he believed he could embrace me with his arms.
He wanted to lock himself to me in a closed world of two where we would be enough for each other. [...]
Exactly in this moment I vanished from his hands [...] it may have seemed as if I were the doom of humanity – the temptation. [...]
From the moment you try to hold me and possess me as a totally willing figure, you suffocate me. [...]
You spoil me, purposefully you turn my essence upside down. [...]
But I seduce the light I take with me, into freedom. [...]
I am the incorruptible beauty of the future, the female ideal.

 

Teilhard de Chardin, visionary theologian, Hymn to the Eternal Female
English translation of a German translation of a French original

BW-Werte: Frauen / Women

  • BW  –

LoC calibrations (engl.): Women

  • LoC 330 – Feminism
  • LoC 425 – Position of men (USA)
  • LoC 405 – Position of women (USA)

  • LoC 185Feminist politics (Sexism)
  • LoC 180Misanthropy Generalized dislike, distrust, disgust, contempt, hatred of the human species / human nature
  • LoC 160Mysogyny Hatred or dislike of women or girls

 

 

Links zu Themen Frauen, Göttin, Feminismus und Emanzipation / Women, Goddess, Feminism, Emancipation

Literatur (inklusive Filme)

  • Und ewig lockt das Weib Filmtitel eines Films von Regisseur Roger Vadim, 1956
    • Et dieu crée la femme (französischer Originaltitel)

Literatur (engl.)

Externe Weblinks




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Externe Weblinks (engl.)



Audio- und Videolinks

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.)


Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Jean Shinoda Bolen

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Riane Eisler

  • Video presentation by Riane Eisler (*1937) Austrian-born US American scholar, macrohistorian, partnership researcher, social activist, author of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, Honoring Women Worldwide, presented and sponsored by HonoringWomenWorldwide.org, YouTube film excerpt, 3:35 minutes duration, posted 13. June 2007
  • Video Keynote Address by Riane Eisler (*1937) Austrian-born US American scholar, macrohistorian, partnership researcher, social activist, president of Center for Partnership Studies, Empowering Women and Building a Better World, sponsored by Civil Society Development Forum, Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO)'s  Women’s Human Rights and Development: Inclusion, Participation, and Equality, New York, presented by blip.tv, 22 minutes duration, 4. May 2010

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Helen Fisher

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Jane Fonda

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Carol Gilligan

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Barbara Marx Hubbard

Audiolinks (engl.) – Lucia René

  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, A Novel Way to Move Beyond the Patriarchy, presented by web radio program Emotionalpro, host Ilene Dillon, 60:11 minutes duration, aired 18. March 2010
  • Audio wisdom teleseminar interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Science, Spirituality, and the Sacred: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Miracles, presented by web radio program Audioacrobat, Lpannell1, 1:04:35 duration, aired 23. March 2011
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging From the Patriarchy, presented by Align Shine Prosper Internet Radio, host Doreen Agostino, 42:34 minutes duration, aired 24. March 2010
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by web radio station Tidings, host Hazel Kahan, 30:00 minutes duration, 7. April 2010
    The nine most devastating components of the patriarchy (limiting consciousness in evolution): New World Order: politics, military, banking, World Bank (controlling natural resources), media, arts (PR), royalty, religion, ?
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging The Patriarchy, presented by web radio program Inner Speak News Soul Adventures, host Jean Adrienne, 54:02 minutes duration, aired 13. April 2010
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, MP3, presented by web radio program The Catherine Bradford Show, host Catherine Bradford, 1 hour duration, 29. April 2010
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Lucia Rene – Interview, presented by web radio station KRUU The Voice of Fairfield Writer's Voices (54.86 MB), host Monica Hadley, 59:55 minutes duration, aired 30. April 2010
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplug from the Patriarchy – women standing in their power, men tending the heart, presented by Blogtalkradio station Freedawn Radio, host Glenna Mageau, 59:49 minutes duration, aired 12. May 2010
  • Audio teleconference with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, former actress, ''Summer Solstice Strategy Meeting – Q&A', MP3, presented by Unplugfromthepatriarchy.com, 1:07:45 duration, begins at minute 16:30, aired 17. June 2010
  • Audio teleconference with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, former actress, Summer Solstice Reflections, MP3, presented by Unplugfromthepatriarchy.com, 26 minutes duration, aired 24. June 2010
    On remarkable happenings of the solstice where women are handed the reins of power and Mother Earth gives the Global Elite their due.
  • Audio teleconference with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, former actress, and Inelia Benz on Mystical Counsel – Death by Pounding and Spiritual Rebirth, MP3, presented by Unplugfromthepatriarchy.com, 1 hour duration, aired 17. July 2010
    Lucia's experience of dying, being reborn, and acquiring the 12D processor
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplug from the Patriarchy! Women You Have The Power Now!, presented by Blogtalkradio station Snap Out Of It, host Dede Murcer Moffett, 60:13 minutes duration, aired 3. August 2010
    At the end of the current cycle of time the patriarchy’s profit-before-people system has been defeated on the mystical planes. Mankind’s 5,000-year schooling in power, abuse of power, and masculine/feminine imbalance is ending. Mother Divine has handed the reins of power to women.
  • Audio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Blogtalkradio show, program BIZ Juice, host Elizabeth Lengyel, 52:45 duration, aired 29. October 2010
  • Audio teleconference with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, former actress, Mystical Counsel, 1 hour duration, aired 2. November 2010
    Working with the four elements and templates of ancient wisdom that are available for the ascension process
  • Audio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, former actress, A Fireside Chat with a Zany Mystic, presented by web radio station Cosmic Penguin, program Zany Mystic, talk-show hosts, Lance White, MP3, 1 hour duration, aired 29. January 2011
    About a near-death experience, the Global Elite and world affairs
  • Audio teleconference with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, former actress, and Inelia Benz on Update on the Global Elite , presented by Unplugfromthepatriarchy.com, MP3, part 1 of 2, 1 hour duration, aired 11. February 2011
    Energetic work on the Global Elite between July 2010 and January 2011 which has fractured the Elite into two camps.
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, former actress, Balancing the feminine and masculine energies, presented by BlogTalkRadio, web radio station Paradan, host Daya Devi Doolin, 32:31 minutes duration, aired 24. February 2011
    On the matrilineal female archetype of the Tantric Lover fractured into the patriarchal wife/whore
  • Audio radio interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Living In The NOW, BeLoveNow host Kimberley Jaeger, 120:30 minutes duration, aired 10. May 2011

Videolinks (engl.) – Lucia René

  • Video interview with Lucia René, US American author of Unplugging the Patriarchy, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 47:37 minutes duration, posted 1. July 2010
  • Video lecture by Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Workshop-Overall Theme, YouTube film, 8:49 minutes duration, posted by LuciaReneAuthor 27. January 2011
  • Video lecture by Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Workshop-12 Archetypes 12 Chakras, YouTube film, 9:31 minutes duration, posted by LuciaReneAuthor, 28. January 2011
  • Video interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, author, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Project Avalon, host Bill Ryan, YouTube film, 1:24:22 duration, posted 27. March 2011
    On the depth psychology of power (3rd chakra) and heart (4th chakra)

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Gloria Steinem

Frauen – Inspiration (engl.)

Frauenfilme

Frauenfilme (engl.) / Women movies

Alice Paul (1885-1977) US American suffragist leader, quaker, author of the Equal Rights Amendment who picketed the White House during President Woodrow Wilson's term of office to gain national women's suffrage in the United States

Other women films

 

Interne Links

Englisch

Hawkins

 

 

1 Riverhead Trade; reprinted updated edition, March 2006