“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.” WantKindCountryLawMotherDiesLanguageImaginationNaturalLibertyAcceptingLike YouTasteEqualMarkTemplesRejectsGoddessEnteringStatuesTranslationsOwlForeign CountriesStewStatue Of LibertyNatural DeathHash Author:Randall Jarrell
“an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.” EarthMotherConsciousDestructionScreensAggressiveGoddessPersonaEmbodimentKali Author:Angelina Jolie
“The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.” Has BeensMotherMoralBloodForgottenFeministGoddessBladesAmbivalenceGreat Mother Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“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.” MenMotherJesusChristBoysWrittenShadowJesus ChristGoddessWombTissues Author:Camille Paglia
“Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.” WorldFormMotherUnderstandingSinDangerCreaturesDiseaseIncreaseWineReleaseBelovedEnjoymentGrantsGoddessLiquidSaviourLiving CreaturesDestroyers Book:Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism Source: Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism
“Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.” MenHardJobsMotherRolesWifeAncientMythScriptureEtcDescriptionLegendsGoddessRevisingPsychoanalyticTemptress Author:Caryl Rivers