True Myth

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or myth:

“You are my true and honorable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal, that we can understand our past through a male lens—if we are unaware that women even have a history—we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)