Goddess Quotes - Page 11

• Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic,
  Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix,
  Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

  Kathleen Raine

  Queens, Science, White

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• Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

  John Ralston Saul

  Reality, Desire, Disease

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?" Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. "I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Flames, House

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

  Roseanne Barr

  Pits, Remember, Punk

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.

  Wendy Doniger

  Mother, Wine, Understanding

  Wendy Doniger (1988). “Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism”, p.135, Manchester University Press

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• Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Chess, Conservative

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Twilight, Despair, Midnight

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.106

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• We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Heaven, Weak

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.365

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• Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Shade

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.255

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• Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
  Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
  Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
  And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

  Joseph Addison

  Freedom, Liberty, Delight

  Joseph Addison, H. Baldwin (imp.) (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.44

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• We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

  Leigh Hunt

  Eye, Animal, Expression

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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• Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Horse, Doubt, Looks

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.239, Bantam

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• Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

  Madame de Stael

  Powerful, Men, Order

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• I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Feminism, Connections, Cry

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

  Caryl Rivers

  Mother, Jobs, Men

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• These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Powerful

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• In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.

  Paul Ludwig Landsberg

  Real, Love Is, Mind

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• Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Real, Men, Worship You

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• People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Age, Golden

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• You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Love Is, Romance

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

  Francois Mitterrand

  Strong, Artist, Giving

  "'L'Abeille et l'architecte' ('The Bee and the Architect')". Book by François Mitterrand, 1980.

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• I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.

  Rita Hayworth

  Sex, Comedian, Felt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

  Roseanne Barr

  Fun, Hate, Housewife

  "Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a 'Working-Class Domestic Goddess'". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 25, 2011.

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• I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Two, Hands, Grows

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• If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

  Chinua Achebe

  Land, Punishment, Oil

  Chinua Achebe (1992). “Things Fall Apart”, Everyman's Library

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