Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa. I often…

“At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“ 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

“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

I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian,…

— Vera Nazarian

“But, at the end of the day, if you ever think you were wrong about it all, I'm here where I have always been:…

— Athena Violante

“It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.”

— Joan Holub

“Do not worry about your contradictions - Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both.”

— Nichole McElhaney

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

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

“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

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

“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