#notion

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

#cults #does #emotional #father #first

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future. ↗

— John Barton

#born #cannot #comfortable #engaging #fact

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#dog #every #every man #fewer #mad

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#full #future #idealised #in fact #notion

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#big #haven #hit #hollywood #just

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#fairly #familiar #familiar territory #getting #hood

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#broken #family #female #head #house

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#believe #church #citizens #democracy #dogma

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. ↗

— William Odom

#arab world #different #europe #land #notion