Goddess Quotes - Page 12

• Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.

  Nigella Lawson

  People, Feelings, Titles

  "A Woman of Extremes". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 14, 2001.

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• I believe "human sexuality" is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something "ennobling" and "empowering," to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as "sex workers" and "goddesses."

  Jim Goad

  Sex, Believe, Empowering

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

  Bret Harte

  Done, Stills, Remains

  Bret Harte (1886). “The Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

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• For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

  Pablo Picasso

  Two, Kind, Doormat

  "Henry Robinson Luce" by Briton Hadden, Time, Vol. 93. p. 66, 1969.

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• But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

  John Milton

  Sight, Views, Black

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 12

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• When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mother, Country, Law

  "The Obscurity of the Poet," Harvard University lecture, published in "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, 1953.

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• Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Two

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

  Mao Zedong

  Wall, Rain, Lakes

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

  Davy Crockett

  Struggle, Flirting, Justice

  Davy Crockett (1859). “Life of Col. David Crockett”, p.7

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• In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

  Brendan Gill

  Water, Gods And Goddesses, Shapes

  1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.

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• The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Blood, Feminist

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Nefertiti, Zeus

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.65, Canongate Books

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• Woman is an incarnation of 'Shakti'- the goddess of power. If she is bestowed with education, Gujarat's strength will double. Let the campaign of 'Kanya Kelavni' be spread in every home. Let the lamp of educating daughters be lit up in every heart. Then only the vision of 'Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat' will be realized.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Daughter, Home

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• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

  Glen Cook

  Men, Two, People

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• You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Deserve Better, Balance

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• Frank nodded grimly. “Well…any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can’t be all bad. Let’s go.

  Rick Riordan

  Giants, Wells, Frank

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• Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

  Libba Bray

  Thinking, White, Blue

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care.

  Tamora Pierce

  Eye, Care, Littles

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “In the Hand of the Goddess”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Army, Darkness

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• A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.

  Brent Weeks

  Men, Way, Months

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• I hate to tell you this,” Jason said, “but I think your leopard just ate a goddess.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Thinking, Jason

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• You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is nearly always portrayed wrapped in roses. If that were not enough, her faces confirms her identity." "You cannot tell a goddess from a face carved in marble," she scoffed. "You can tell Voluptas by her face." "I've never even heard of this goddess, and you know what she looks like?" "She is the goddess of sensual pleasure." Isabel's mouth fell open at the words. She could not think of a single thing to say in response. "Oh

  Sarah MacLean

  Thinking, Rose, Sensual

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• He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

  Sparky Anderson

  Greek, Greek God, Built

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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• I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

  Gustave Courbet

  Angel, Painting, Not Interested

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