When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.
Meg Cabot
MotherSpringStoryGoddessSeeHer
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
MusicI AmYouBadGoddessHard
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
Martha Beck
GoodCultureWomanGoddessFirst
My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.
Kate Moss
SweetGoddessSignatureJamSticky
Girls from poor families of the 'untouchable,' or lower, caste are 'married' to Yellamma as young as four. No longer allowed to marry a mortal, they are expected to bestow their entire lives to the service of the goddess.
Beeban Kidron
ServiceGoddessYoungPoorCaste
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
Amelie Nothomb
GodThoughtWinnerGoddessBecome
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.
Annie Besant
PassionGreatStrongGoddessLiberty
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Gloria Steinem
GodDetailsQuestionsBackGoddess
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
PowerMeaningGoddessIndependent
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
Naomi Wolf
WomenBattleGoddessFantasyGentle
I think Kristin Bauer is a goddess.
Rutina Wesley
ThinkGoddessI Think
God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
Anohni
NatureGodYouWrongGoddessWay
I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.
Erin Cummings
GirlWomanI AmBabyTexasGoddess
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.
WomenGreatMoonGoddessThreeOur
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
M.I.A.
MusicGoddessCoincidenceRapWord
Onstage, I channel my inner goddess. Everyday Jillian is definitely more low-key: jeans and a crop top with a sneaker or boot.
Jillian Hervey
GoddessEverydayMoreTopJeans
I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'
Roseanne Barr
HateFunGoddessNeverAnything
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives.
Alison Jackson
SexGoddessBecomeCelebrityShape
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
RomanticFootballTeamNightGoddess
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
LifeDeathReligionGoddessBirth
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
LoveWomanMistakeLove IsGoddess
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
SeaGoddessOverCulturesBasicOur
When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!
Mary Lambert
ProudArtistGayGoddessSaidShe
You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.
Sylvia Kristel
LoveAgeBetterDieYouGoddess
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