“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow men.”
*The Hero With A Thousand Faces* 23
“I don’t know what the counterpart would be in the woman’s case … There is a feminine counterpart to the trials and the difficulties, but it certainly is in a different mode. I don’t know the counterpart––the real counterpart, not the woman pretending to be male, but the normal feminine archetypology of this experience. I wouldn’t know what that would be.
Women will have to tell us the way a woman experiences the journey, if it is the same journey.”
Archive audio L1184, Big Sur, CA, 11/8/83