#goddess

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. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging

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. ↗

— April Winchell

#bad #boyfriend #computer #days #distracted

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#before #boy #captain #collecting #competing

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

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. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#basic #beneficent #female #goddess #independent

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. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#christian #courage #earrings #even #evident

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did. ↗

— Sunil Gangopadhyay

#did #expense #goddesses #gods #hindus

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

— Jenifer Lewis

#come #goddess #out #salon #you

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

— H. L. Mencken

#goddess #love #love is #merely #mistake

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