Cobras Quote by Wally Lamb

She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray…

— Rick Riordan

“In the Neolithic period, throughout Europe and the Near East, there appear figurines which represent bird/women, snake/women, and bird/snake/woman hybrids. Since Goddesses with bird…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling: the…

— Walter Deverell

“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the…

— Marcel Proust

“Those who visited that exhibition-room found an auto-de-fé of immense skies in ignition, globes blotted out by bleeding suns; hemorrhages of stars, flowing down…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect…

— Joan D. Vinge

“When we see this worldwide occurrence of the Goddess and her Serpent, and then recall the ancient African Black Goddess, the Black Witch, imaged…

— Monica Sjöö

“We are not merely fragments of the Goddess—we are her expressions. Whatever you see, feel, think and touch, it is all her, and all…

— Mata Enzer

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“but the older priestesses had explained to her, as they gathered in the courtyard, that the Moon God was effacing the brightness of the…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, And there were little hounds about her feet; Below her feet there was a sickle…

— Geoffrey Chaucer