Female Deities

Famous quotes containing the words female and/or deities:

    “Here falling houses thunder on your head,
    And here a female atheist talks you dead.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “The gods themselves,
    Humbling their deities to love, have taken
    The shapes of beasts upon them. Jupiter
    Became a bull, and bellowed; the green Neptune
    A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,
    Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)