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Medusa Quotes by Helene Cixous
- Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the…
- 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.
More Medusa Quotes
- Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery… — Edward Abbey
- I've been prepping for my role as Medusa. — Joaquin Phoenix
- Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. — Archibald MacLeish
- You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa,… — Theda Bara
- Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather… — Christopher Hitchens
- 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
- Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley
- The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the… — Federico Garcia Lorca
- Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands… — Ray Harryhausen
- Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a… — R. D. Laing
- Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the… — Helene Cixous
- The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called… — Ray Bradbury