The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Analysis Archetype Children Dreams Psychology Symbolism Symbols

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.

~ Marie-Louise Von Franz

Marie-Louise Von Franz Archetype Fine Structure Constant Nature Number Physics Psychology

And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.

~ Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore Archetype Feminism Patriarchy Power Strength Submissiveness Women

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

~ Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Archetype Childhood Motherhood Projection Psychology