"Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place."

-- Angela Carter

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Real Quotes

“I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.”
“I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases.”
“States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company
“I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in theÂ so-called third act of our lives.”
“O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!”
“I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.”
“China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.”

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