While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies.
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
I think for far too long there was this perception, or I guess I would call it a misperception, that our locker rooms in the NFL are extremely homophobic, and that could not be further from the truth.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.
