“Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.” — Karen Essex Positive attitude Copy Share Image
“All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same.… — Karen Essex Death Copy Share Image
“You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade… — Karen Essex Evading Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of… — Karen Essex Betrayal Copy Share Image
“One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?” asked the Roman. “They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will… — Karen Essex Famous people Copy Share Image
“The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.” — Karen Essex Enemies Copy Share Image
“One must either rule side by side or be subdued entirely.” — Karen Essex Compromise Copy Share Image
Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more… — Karen Essex Bones Copy Share Image
“The people call it a miracle; the scientists call it invention. But the invention is miraculous, is it not?” — karen essex Innovation Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Birth Copy Share Image
“...the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world… — Karen Essex Children Copy Share Image
“Together, they were greater than either them could possibly be apart. Together, she prayed, they were invincible.” — Karen Essex Invincible Copy Share Image
“Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be,” he invoked.” — Karen Essex Kindlehighlight Copy Share Image
It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity. — Karen Essex Anonymity Copy Share Image
“You must never deprive the people of their belief in the power of the gods, and you must never deprive yourself of… — Karen Essex Faith Copy Share Image
“Are you ready to be rejoined for all time with your fellow gods? Oh yes, she explained, For not only was he… — Karen Essex Death Copy Share Image
“I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.” — Karen Essex Happiness Copy Share Image
“You see, Great Caesar. she said, this is the way in which mortals retain the power of the divine---in every earthly choice… — Karen Essex Choices Copy Share Image
“As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was… — Karen Essex Cleopatra Copy Share Image
“Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.” — Karen Essex Julius-caesar Copy Share Image
“I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then… — Karen Essex Women Copy Share Image
“The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been… — Karen Essex Books Copy Share Image
