“They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Turn bad thoughts into concrete so you can build a strong foundation.” — Antonia Perdu Copy Share Image
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa. I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Every part of her was still except her hair, which blew round her face in the damp night like Medusa's serpentine locks… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
“If you love me, you will go now. I would have you live. For once they wake, I cannot stop them...” — Sasha Summers Copy Share Image
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He drew in a harsh breath before he whispered, "The love I have for you gives me breath and strength. you will… — Sasha Summers Copy Share Image
To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Look, ladies, we've been over this. I don't even remember killing Medusa. I don't remember anything! Can't we just call a truce… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“personal well-being serves solely to excavate within your soul a chasm which waits to be filled by a landslide of dread, an… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
“Crimes against women won’t stop! As women gain more independence (both in thought and in spirit), castration anxiety will act out and… — Mallika Nawal Copy Share Image
“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
“Medusa's lips split with that challenging smile, and for a second he recognized her somehow, he knew her on some primal level,… — S.J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Medusa reminds us that we must not take the female “monster” at face value; that we must not only weigh her beneficent… — Miriam Robbins Dexter Copy Share Image
Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The duende…Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“According to Greek mythology, Medusa is a Triple Goddess, one of three gorgon sisters—Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa—representing past, present, and future. Only… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“I’m nobody’s sidekick,” Annabeth growled. “And, Percy, his accent sounds familiar because he sounds like his mother. We killed her in New… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“It is no surprise, then, that the earth deities of the Old Religion were demonized or co-opted. A typical task for Greek… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“When Medusa was killed, her powers were plundered. She was pregnant with her son Chrysaor and the winged horse Pegasus who were… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“Long before the Gorgon Medusa constellated within the archaic Greek world and was demonized as ugly and ultimately monstrous—with her tongue lolling… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“ In ancient times, the Gorgon Medusa lived on the far side of Oceanus in the land of Night. She was an… — Lynne Ewing Copy Share Image
“Philologically, the name Medusa means the “ruling one.” But by the time of the earliest Greek texts which contain myth, those of… — Miriam Robbins Dexter Copy Share Image
“Medusa continues to be viewed as protective and apotropaic—warding off evil, warding off the enemy—and even healing in the Greek tradition, but… — Miriam Robbins Dexter Copy Share Image
“Similarly, Medusa (or Gorgon) was celebrated for her outstanding beauty. She was a daughter of the very wealthy king Phorcys whose large… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
