Quotes About Myth

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

8:37 Instead of narrative build-up, what if we have Icarus crawling right into the water - wings on, indifferent to flight - skipping past the story-part to lie down in the ending?