Goddess Quotes:
"The stories say that the Cold Woman was the most beautiful thing human
eyes had ever seen. She looked like the goddess of the dawn when she
entered the village that morning; the sun was ****ning for once, and it
glittered off her white skin and lit the golden hair that flowed down to
her knees. Her face was magical in its beauty, her eyes black in her
white face. Some fell to their knees to wor****p her."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)
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"The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh
maternal scimitar."
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of
the West)
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"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy
envelope of a goddess in an epic."
— Henry James, The ****trait of a Lady
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"The stories say that the Cold Woman was the most beautiful thing human
eyes had ever seen. She looked like the goddess of the dawn when she
entered the village that morning; the sun was ****ning for once, and it
glittered off her white skin and lit the golden hair that flowed down to
her knees. Her face was magical in its beauty, her eyes black in her
white face. Some fell to their knees to wor****p her."
— Stephenie Meyer
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"(to Spiro) And one more thing. About my name - Artemis - you were
right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess
of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent
for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male.
Artemis the hunter. I hunted you."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code)
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"God lets bad things happen to good people to test their faith, but the
goddess knows the faithful and knows that bad things only make people
stronger. and there's nothing wrong with stronger."
— Jennifer Dimarco
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"And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourlseves. The Goddess
awakens in our hearts before she awakens in the world."
— Marianne Williamson
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"Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)"
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
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"The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is
a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental
goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more
universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being."
— George Curtis
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"I am a Goddess of Peace
On a throne of tranquility"
— Sirona Knight
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"Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess.
She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she
sustains humanity with solid food.
Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin,
bringing the counterpart to bread: wine
and the blessings of life's flowing juices.
His blood, the blood of the grape,
lightens the burden of our mortal misery.
Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the
Gods. And through him, we are blessed."
— Euripides (The Bacchae (Meridian Classics))
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"Here ... in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh
that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. -- Toni
Morrison's Beloved "
— Toni Morrison (total goddess)
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"'Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last
time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight
this time.'"
— Jane Yolen (The Books of Great Alta:
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Comprising 'Sister Light, Sister Dark' and 'White Jenna' (Books of Great
Alta))
"Our present lives are dominated by the goddess Reason, who is our
greatest and most tragic illusion."
— Carl Gustav Jung
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"Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into
handmaidens,queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)
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