Gorgon Quotes

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality. (Camille Paglia)
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it. View quote
Peter A. Levine
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless. View quote
Primo Levi
Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. "Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary - she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness. View quote
Edith Wharton
More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. View quote
Henry Rollins
A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night. View quote
Edmund Spenser
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so. View quote
Libba Bray