Myth Quotes - Page 39

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

  Riane Eisler

  Reality, Hands, Hand In Hand

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• the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Children, People, Childhood

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• The bearers of fables are very welcome.

  Monique Wittig

  Fables, Welcome

  Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.51, University of Illinois Press

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• It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Small Numbers, Hands, White Privilege

  "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies". 1988.

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• For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Country, Giving Up, Doors

  "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack". Peggy McIntosh, Peace and Freedom Magazine (by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), July/August 1989.

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• I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Political, Belief

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Two, Luxury, People

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Giving, Wife

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• Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?

  Pamala Oslie

  Love, Technology, Perfect

  Pamala Oslie (2010). “Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras”, p.3, New World Library

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• Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

  Natalie Angier

  Love Is, Eternal Love, Eternal

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.377, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

  Jennifer Stone

  Movie, Taken, Mood

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
  They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

  Fred Van Lente

  Journey, Solitude, Different

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• I like believing. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than peoples imaginations.

  Megan Fox

  Believe, Lucky Charms, Imagination

  "Megan Fox Saves Herself". Interview with Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

  Carre Otis

  Forever, Trying, Size

  "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, War

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

  James Hillman

  Expression, Soul, Symptoms

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• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  B. D. Wong

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Outsiders, Trinidadians

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

  Ted Malloch

  Selfish, World, Conflict

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.

  Merle Hoffman

  Powerful, Fall, Life And Death

  Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.59, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Rid yourself of the old myth, if it has been plaguing you, that money is not important. It is important - vitally important! It is just as important as the food it buys, the shelter it provides, the doctor bills it pays, and the education it helps to procure.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Doctors, Important

  Venita VanCaspel (1978). “The new money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once possessed by man, but now lost, and only to be attained again by the virtuous.

  H. A. Guerber

  Men, Race, Land

  H. A. Guerber (1910). “Myths & Legends of the Middle Ages”

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• Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Imagination, World

  Joseph Campbell (2007). “The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987”, p.16, New World Library

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