Certain Quote by Joan D. Vinge

Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life…

— Bettany Hughes

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

“Much of what is written on the craft is biased in one way or another, so weed out what is useful to you and…

— starhawk

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of…

— Cassandra Clare

“Every culture has its version. It's universal. One of the things that is most fascinating about studying mythology is how so many of the…

— M.J. Rose

“The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be…

— Michael Meade

Venus is a walking, living, breathing legend.

— Bianca Andreescu

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously…

— Jack Zipes

I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"],…

— Yasumasa Morimura

“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of…

— Anaïs Nin

“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone…

— Peggy Herring