Medusa famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
-- Helene Cixous -
If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
-- John Updike