Mother God

Famous quotes containing the words mother god, mother and/or god:

“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

“Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)