Medea Quotes

• When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun Pandæa only daughter of Cristna or the Sun Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus surely all this is very mythological an historical parable!

  Godfrey Higgins

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Godfrey Higgins (1836). “Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions”, p.439

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• Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

  William Congreve

  Hell Hath No Fury, Mourning, Chocolate

  "The Mourning Bride". Book by William Congreve, 1697.

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• I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

  Euripides

  Evil, Stronger, Criminal Mind

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

  Rachel Caine

  Mother, Children, People

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Ill Wind”, p.24, Allison & Busby

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• I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

  Eva Mendes

  Heart, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You always obey him? (Medea)If I didn't want to live, I'd stop taking human souls and expire. It would be a lot less painful than crossing Stryker. (Devyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Would Be, Want

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• All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

  Martha Graham

  Mother, Husband, Wicked

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Two, Ballet

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
  and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
  balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
  science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
  means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something
  nice to eat.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

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• Relax, Medea. We’ve come to see your mother. (Tory) Your funeral. (Medea) It’s always so good to see you, too. You’re just such a ray of happy sunshine. I so look forward to all our interactions. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Sunshine, Funeral

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• What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn’t think I was snooping. It didn’t feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn’t it. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Snooping, Honestly

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Your father abandoned us. (Zephyra) I know. You’ve told me that enough that it’s permanently seared into my brain. Still, he’s a part of me and I’d like to have closure. (Medea) You really need to stop watching Oprah. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Brain, Needs

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• Trust me, baby, you weren’t that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No offense, Mum, I don’t want to know who you’ve slept with. Kill the sexual bantering and him before I go deaf from it. (Medea)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Actors, Want

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• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Class, Acting, Actresses

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