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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.»
Author: Helen Lawrenson
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attired, befit, befits, befitting, goddesses, gods and goddesses, mythology, ostensibly, rank
«Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
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cults, Father-God, goddesses, gods and goddesses, in the first place, myths, obscuring, revival, revivals
«For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.»
«There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats»
«GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.»
«I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, beauties, curves, goddesses, gods and goddesses, Greeks, lines, rhythmical, sculpture, sensitive, subtly, throbbing, throbs
«Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite»
«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 s»
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