#archetype

I do so love my witches and wicked queens. I find myself drawn to feminine archetypes that previous generations have found threatening or dangerous: crones, oracles, madwomen, Amazons, virgins who aren’t helpless, bad mothers. I love to give the vagina dentata voice. It so rarely gets to speak for itself. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#women #love

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. ↗

— Brad Bird

#archetypes #base #family #i #i tried

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#although #am #archetypes #correct #doubt

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#archetypes #back #europe #go #greek

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#global #most #mythologies #religious #root