Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone."
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Medusa
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Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas."
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