Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek…

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You…

— Joseph Campbell

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

“Look, Percy, I'm not as smart as Annabeth. I'm not as brave as you. But I'm pretty good at reading emotions. You're glad your…

— Rick Riordan

“Philologically, the name Medusa means the “ruling one.” But by the time of the earliest Greek texts which contain myth, those of Homer, Medusa…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

“According to Greek mythology, Medusa is a Triple Goddess, one of three gorgon sisters—Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa—representing past, present, and future. Only Medusa exists…

— Joan Marler

“Every part of her was still except her hair, which blew round her face in the damp night like Medusa's serpentine locks rearing to…

— Katherine Pine

“Medusa reminds us that we must not take the female “monster” at face value; that we must not only weigh her beneficent against her…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

“ In ancient times, the Gorgon Medusa lived on the far side of Oceanus in the land of Night. She was an awesome dragonlike…

— Lynne Ewing

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang…

— Ray Bradbury

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant…

— Rick Riordan

Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of…

— Paul Celan

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Medusa's lips split with that challenging smile, and for a second he recognized her somehow, he knew her on some primal level, the same…

— S.J. Kincaid

“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you…

— Mike Carey & Peter Gross