Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

A language is everything you do.

Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us aas real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We're no more real than money.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the idea that these inoculations were making children autistic. Now we're getting outbreaks that are killing children. The end result is, if you create a population that lacks immunity, and diseases are still there, you're going to get outbreaks and you're going to get death.