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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Book by Jess Zimmerman · 7 quotes · Feminism, Mythology, Women

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“As always in myth, women win their fame by dying.”

Death Women Sacrifice Feminism Dying Mythology

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“What was it like for the sirens on their lonely rock, watching everyone who tried to love them drown?”

Feminism Mythology Sirens

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“...and Athena, it must be admitted, has never been much of a friend to her fellow women. The war-like goddess of wisdom, who wasn't even gestated by a women (she sprang fully grown from her father's head), is the original "not-like-the-other-girls" girl.”

War Wisdom Feminism Mythology Goddess Athena Internalized Misogyny

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“Women have been monsters, and monsters have been women.”

Women Feminism Mythology Monsters

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“The harpy wants to win, which means a man must lose. She wants justice, which means a man must be punished. She wants space that could be taken by a man. Are we really willing to make that sacrifice? What makes a woman's ambition predatory, we are told, is that it overflows its natural bounds. It treads on the lands that men have marked as theirs.”

Feminism Ambition Mythology Sexism Harpy

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“Before Lamia killed children, her children were killed. The root of her violence, like the root of so much violence, is grief.”

Women Grief Mythology Monsters Child Death Lamia

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“...and Athena, it must be admitted, has never been much of a friend to her fellow women. The war-like goddess of wisdom, who wasn't even gestated by a woman (she sprang fully grown from her father's head), is the original "not-like-the-other-girls" girl.”

War Wisdom Feminism Mythology Goddess Athena Internalized Misogyny

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