Quotes About Goddess

From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions — even when they worship a goddess — as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion.

I know that Goddess ritual, insofar as it generates reverence for and celebrates that which is female, which is us, is fiercely empowering, and that her image in our minds—images of ourselves as deity—is necessary as a blueprint for a more authoritative mode of being in the world. The Goddess is a metaphor for our own and all women's creative, healing, transformative powers, a representation of our inner selves.

I, I count myself the son of Chance, the great goddess, giver of all good things— I'll never see myself disgraced.

Sabrina fair,Listen where thou art sittingUnder the glassy, cool, translucent wave,In twisted braids of lilies knittingThe loose train of thy amber-dropping hair;Listen for dear honor's sake,Goddess of the silver lake,Listen and save.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

When you dance, sister, you feel in your heart the blessing of the Goddess, her peace, her kindness. But when you are with him, then the power of the Goddess is in your heart, crashing through you. The Goddess is no thing of stone. The Goddess is breath, desire, despair. She is the green of the brushing leaf, the baby's cry, the lovers bite, the fragrance of the rose. You feel the Goddess moving through you.

There is only one Goddess, even to the angels. Gaea is known to all the races within her.

There are carnivores, but not many. Symbiosis is the basic fact of life. That, and worship. Whistletop says all of the higher life forms owe allegiance to a godhead, and the seat of divinity is in the hub. I've been thinking of a goddess that rules the whole circle of the land. I call her Gaia, for the Greek mother.

I am the Earth Mother, though I am not your Earth. All life springs from me. I am one of the pantheon that reaches to the stars. Call me a Titan.

Strange invitations were often dancing lessons from the goddess.

When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. I walked into the shrine through the red arch and struck the bell. I bowed twice. I clapped twice. I whispered to the foreign goddess and bowed again. And then I heard the shouts and the fire. What I asked for? Any life but this one.

Diana? Isn't she the goddess who hated men?' He considered. 'I think of her as the goddess who tempted men by bathing outdoors, and turned them into animal life if they succumbed to the lure of bare flesh.

Dusk fell, and from the sacred oak-tree by the Scaean Gate the two vultures were gone; god and goddess, for the moment, reconciled.

The daughter is the goddess, separately or together, of Infatuation, Mischief, Delusion and Blind Folly, rendering her victims "incapable of rational choice" and blind to distinctions of morality and expedience.

Why must you mere mortals gamble with your own thoughts when you have the goddess of corn here to keep you from screwing up?

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. You

La oportunidad es una diosa arrogante que no malgasta el tiempo con los que no están preparados.

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract the interest of the good goddess. She is ever anxious to aid those who please her. Men of action please her best . Action will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire. MEN OF ACTION ARE FAVORED BY THE GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK                                                

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract the interest of the good goddess.

What reason have we to feel the good goddess would take that much interest in any man's bet upon a horse race? To me she is a goddess of love and dignity whose pleasure it is to aid those who are in need and to reward those who are deserving. I look to find her, not at the gaming tables or the races where men lose more gold than they win but in other places where the doings of men are more worthwhile and more worthy of reward.

We all hope to be favored by the whimsical Goddess of Good Luck.

To me she is a goddess of love and dignity whose pleasure it is to aid those who are in need and to reward those who are deserving.

I am inclined to think we may be overlooking the gifts of the goddess. Perhaps she really does assist us when we do not appreciate her generosity.