I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'. William Golding
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She was asked about why she liked the word 'mythic' so much. She said it was because it expressed the idea that she was telling a story, and so it was a way of talking about truth which could not be told just by describing it. Her book, The Big Picture: Rethinking Women, God and the Bible , is an attempt to get at the truth behind the stories we tell about women and God.

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