“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.” FallDifficultPowerfulPositionCircumstancesCreaturesVictimEmbraceMythAssumptionAbortionDependentLife And DeathMost PowerfulTrustedPassivePrey Book:Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room Source: Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
“As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.” SoulBodyParentCircumstancesMyth Author:James Hillman
“I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.” ThinkingCausesResultsGoneRegretCircumstancesDrugMythAlcoholRageHopefullyRelateAppealsWerewolfExhaustionUnleashedLeashes Author:Benjamin Percy
“What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our fault. They were just an inferior race. And so John Marshall adopts that. And the tragedy and the present-day circumstances of that decision are that those racial attitudes are so deeply embedded in these foundational principles of American Indian law.” DecisionAttitudeCircumstancesTragedyExcuseMythIdeologyEmbeddedAmerican IndianSavagery Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.” KnowsHas BeensArtSaidCountryStoriesNamesDarkIdentityCircumstancesMereMythMysteriousWorks Of ArtThievesStolenPhantomsTrue Identity Author:Yukiru Sugisaki