Affection Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in…

— Anne Desclos

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

— Bret Harte

“As Bonheim so beautifully describes, Today, I would describe a priestess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life…

— Sera Beak

“Every woman is a priestess,” she said abruptly. “Every single one.” She turned to Marianne, her eyes clear as water. “The major religions and…

— Nina George

“That 'creature,' that 'woman of loose behaviour' is perhaps holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation! She fell perhaps in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“…if divinity, which is the goddess, is intrinsic to her being, something she caries around with her all the time, something she is, then…

— Loriliai Biernacki

“Every woman is a priestess if she loves life and can work magic on herself and those who are sacred to her. It’s time…

— Nina George

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has…

— Wilkie Collins

Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“As the Great Creatrix, the feminine is no vessel and passage for an alien, masculine Other that condescends towards her, enters into her, and…

— Erich Neumann