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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.
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Paul Cellucci, Politician (1948) |
Richard M. Daley, Politician (1942) |
Jean Paul Gaultier, Designer (1952) |
Jim Geringer, Politician (1944) |
Jill Ireland, Actress (1936) |
Jack Kingston, Politician (1955) |
Bud Abbott, Actor (1974) |
Felix Adler, Educator (1933) |
Harry Banks, Soldier (1915) |
Alejo Carpentier, Novelist (1980) |
Willa Cather, Author (1947) |
James Thomas Fields, Publisher (1881) |
G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist (1924) |
Granville Stanley Hall, Psychologist (1924) |
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer (2002) |
Louis A. Johnson, Public Servant (1966) |