The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values. Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one.
Ann Oakley
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Ann Oakley
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.