Goddess Quotes

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)
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. View quote
William Blake
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. View quote
Edith Sitwell
All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator. View quote
Dion Fortune
I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. View quote
Jonathan Swift
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)
Night, sable goddess from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. View quote
Edward Young
Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring. View quote
Heinz Guderian
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. View quote
Carol P. Christ
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. View quote
Carol P. Christ
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. View quote
Carol P. Christ
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. View quote
James Frazer
If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. View quote
Henry James
Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach. (James McNeill Whistler)
For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine. View quote
François Mitterrand
Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. View quote
Donna Haraway
All men - even, I have written, Jesus Christ - began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes. View quote
Camille Paglia