#goddess

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. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#birth #crete #death #delight #diversity

Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the same inequality of lot, the same heaping up of favors here, of contumely there, the same generosity before justice, the same perpetual dilemmas, the same captious alteration of caresses and blows that we endure now. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#goddess #model #return-of-the-native #woman #change

Where I hear of people’s stories who have been through the same as me and end up on the street I realized that my courage is not in what I faced but who I am. ↗

— Inez

#courage

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave. ↗

— Denise Sevier Fries

#children #destiny #family #fate #fates

The first time is always the hardest ↗

— Sarwat Chadda

#death #kill #trials #death

I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter’s supple breasts—to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes. They seek goddesses, but I desired only Anne. ↗

— Roman Payne

#demeter #goddesses #life #mortals #payne

We believe in you, Phoebe," Stella says. "You just have to believe in yourself." I roll my eyes behind the blindfold. As if that's not a cheesy, movie-of-the-week line. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#phoebe #movies

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consumerism #free-will #god #goddess #greek

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

— Carol P. Christ

#death #feared #followed #goddess #life

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

— Daisy Donovan

#domestic #everybody #goddesses #high #lives