Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti."
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Goddess
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Carol P. Christ
Scholar
"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power."
Merlin Stone
Author, Feminist
"The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept."
Homer
Poet
"Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!"
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats."
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"At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me."
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"You are a black goddess when you come out the salon."
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"You're either a goddess ... or a doormat."
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"You are a GODDESS when you leave the salon"
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"In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal."
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"The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own goddess."
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"You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?"
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"The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love."
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"Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will."
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"You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you."
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"To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter."
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"Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along."
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