Goddess Quotes

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess.

I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods.

If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life;

they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS.

That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

All great movements are popular movements.

They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses.

Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

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.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

Salutations to Hari (Lord Vishnu), Shree (the Goddess of prosperity), and Lord Ganapathy.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions.

Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music;

I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.