“ I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ With her unmistakable pout and jutting breasts Brigitte Bardot was more than just a goddess. For a war-weary generation she came to personify a new, liberated, sun-soaked, carefree France. ”
- Diana Geddes- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Dan Brown- Copy
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“ Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings. ”
- Anne Shannon Monroe- Copy
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“ The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Marguerite Yourcenar- Copy
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“ Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? ”
- Ludwig van Beethoven- Copy
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“ Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. ”
- Edith Sitwell- Copy
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“ I hate the word housewife; I don't like the word home-maker either. I want to be called Domestic Goddess. ”
- Roseanne Barr- Copy
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“ These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts. ”
- Helen Lawrenson- Copy
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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 William Curtis- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Catherine Drinker Bowen- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ 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… ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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