“The inclusion of the Oak King/Holly King cycle into Wicca is really quite modern, with Robert Grave’s The White Goddess and Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough as the major sources.”
― The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine
― The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine
“But she must have been a wonderful person, right?” “Was she? Who was it who said loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance?”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“But people seem to have a great love for names; for to know a great many names, seems to look like knowing a good many things; though I should not be surprised, if there were a great many more names than things in the world.”
― Redburn
― Redburn
“Today, the practice of cosmetic medicine is one that walks the line between empowering women to control their bodies and trapping them in a gilded cage of punishing beauty standards.”
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
“Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
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