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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. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  God, Mom, Thinking

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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• Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.

  Ketzel Levine

  Beauty, Education, Real

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• And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.

  Anne Rice

  Sweet, Strong, Men

  "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned". Book by Anne Rice, 1989.

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• Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

  Philippe Halsman

  God Love, Phenomenal

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• The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Civilization, Lasts

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.260, Routledge

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• I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

  Gustave Courbet

  Angel, Painting, Not Interested

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• He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

  Sparky Anderson

  Greek, Greek God, Built

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• The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

  John Owen

  Home, Son, Men

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.40

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• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

  Glen Cook

  Men, Two, People

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• I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

  Wally Lamb

  Moon, Snakes, Skulls

  Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

  Dion Fortune

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Night, Sky, Play

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Experts, Students, Truth Is

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• If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Home, Years

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Cyborg

  "You Are Cyborg" by Hari Kunzru, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.

  Sheri Holman

  Dream, Book, Political

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• Become goddesses of disobedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Funny Graduation, Disobedience

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• His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Art, Nature, Law

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• I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.

  John Keats

  Women, Fall, Imagination

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

  George Koltanowski

  Chess, Evidence, Historian

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• Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

  Davy Crockett

  Struggle, Flirting, Justice

  Davy Crockett (1859). “Life of Col. David Crockett”, p.7

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• I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

  Roseanne Barr

  Pits, Remember, Punk

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

  Homer

  Heaven, Links, Golden

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• For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

  Pablo Picasso

  Two, Kind, Doormat

  "Henry Robinson Luce" by Briton Hadden, Time, Vol. 93. p. 66, 1969.

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