“Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.”
Women and Madness (2005), pp. 348–349, and Women and Madness (1972), p. 301.
Women and Madness (1972, 2005)
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Variant: You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Source: Women
Source: The Power of Myth (book), p.183
Context: Moyers: Unlike heroes such as Prometheus or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.
Campbell: But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there's no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
“I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.”
Arguing for woman suffrage at an anniversary celebration of the Equal Rights Association (12 May 1869); as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2 (1882) by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
“Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith.”
It is not necessary, before all things, that he be good, honest, merciful, charitable and just. Creed is more important than conduct. The most important of all things is, that he hold the Catholic faith. There were thousands of years during which it was not necessary to hold that faith, because that faith did not exist; and yet during that time the virtues were just as important as now, just as important as they ever can be. Millions of the noblest of the human race never heard of this creed. Millions of the bravest and best have heard of it, examined, and rejected it. Millions of the most infamous have believed it, and because of their belief, or notwithstanding their belief, have murdered millions of their fellows. We know that men can be, have been, and are just as wicked with it as without it.
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
“We not only saved the world, er, saved the banks...”
" We not only saved the world... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7775515.stm", BBC News, 10 December 2008
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