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“You’re probably wondering: why were Medusa’s kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa’s body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I’m just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you’re in the wrong universe”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

“Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples!”
― Rick Riordan

“But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell?”
― Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife

“Yes, I'm a hypocrite. It doesn't change anything.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Insignia

“Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa.
I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed.”
― Nichole McElhaney, Poetry For Celestial Nymphs and Wayward Witches

“If you love me, you will go now. I would have you live. For once they wake, I cannot stop them...”
― Sasha Summers, Medusa, A Love Story

“Oh no, young Skywalker. The ugly is strong in that one.â€�

Wyatt glared at him. “Or perhaps she has a classified identity? You know, the same way we do?�

“Nah. Ugly. Face it, Tom,â€� Vik said, “no girl who fights like that can be hot, too. It would cause a huge imbalance in the cosmos that would unravel the space-time continuum and make the universe implode. And she won’t show you. That’s a red flag. Big, bright, waving red flag.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Insignia

“THE STAGE:
The stage is empty, and you watch as the figure of Medusa steps into the gas-light. Her body is dressed in a crimson traversed by the golden branches of willow trees, colour and light held into shape by sharp black borders. Lifting languidly her hands, she reaches towards you. Her emerald vipers, in the cohesive movements of unseen mechanisms, weave loops about her head. Music is beginning, and from the shadows off-stage the narrator speaks. “Medusa had a beautiful name and a lovely voice, though no one cared to listen; seeking only the gaze of those famous eyes.�
Perseus walks onto the stage, cloaked as though he were the blazing sun. Now what you have to understand is his voice â€� it is like nothing you could tie down. It feels peaceful to hear it, to see him flow into the song with his fine, clear looks and his finer, clearer voice. Is the head quite forgotten? Not quite but the horror exists alongside the beauty and they flow like twin rivers, and neither is able to wash the other from you.”
― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides

“If Medusa was Dominican
and had a daughter, I think I'd be her.
I look and feel like a myth.
A story distorted, waiting for others to stop
and stare.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Turn bad thoughts into concrete so you can build a strong foundation.”
― Antonia Perdu

“I had to break up with Medusa. I just got sick of buying mice for her hair. I should have ended it sooner, but you try looking into those eyes.”
― Alex Bosworth, Chip Chip Chaw!

“The lightning cracked again, this time like it was right on top of us, feet away from arcing through the house, and her skin was white as stone and her hair waving, and I thought about the Medusa I'd seen in an old movie when I was younger, monstrous and green-scaled, and I thought: That's not it at all. She was beautiful as Mama. That's how she froze those men, with the shock of seeing something so perfect and fierce in the world.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“I stared in the mirror.
Love gone bad
showed me a Gorgon.
I stared at a dragon.
Fire spewed
from the mouth of a mountain.

And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue
and your girls, your girls.
Wasn’t I beautiful
Wasn’t I fragrant and young?

Look at me now.”
― Carol Ann Duffy

“They say that Medusa turned men to stone because she was so ugly,â€� Marcus said wistfully. ‘I think the opposite was true: Medusa was beautiful beyond imagining. Her beauty paralysed men. It was because they became so still when they saw her that people believed they’d been turned to stone.”
― Mike Hockney, The Millionaires' Death Club

“He drew in a harsh breath before he whispered, "The love I have for you gives me breath and strength. you will always hold my heart. Let it give you the strength to dowhat must be done. For you will be my lady, forever.”
― Sasha Summers

“Secreto medusas em você e você as desenvolve até ±èó±ô¾±±è´Çs.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“Oh. Now you are not so afraid, then?"
Kitty opened her mouth, indignant. "I was not afraid before! I was... shocked. How many times do you see your orphanage roommate be able to turn someone into stone?"
"Every time I look in the mirror.”
― Ana Franco, Down the Wormhole

“...I grow
snakes for
hair to hold
the venom
secreted
from this
heart loaded
too heavily
with all
they hate
about themselves and if

they hiss
it's only because
like any monster I've
long since
lost
my own
right
to scream"
- from "Medusa", Reduction Fired”
― Jennifer Yeates Camara, Reduction Fired

“Who is this Medusa whose visage has haunted the western imagination for 2700 years? Why has she remained so potent, and why is it necessary to “re-visionâ€� her now in the 21st century?”
― Joan Marler, Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom

“Crimes against women won’t stop! As women gain more independence (both in thought and in spirit), castration anxiety will act out and will always find a Medusa to behead!”
― Mallika Nawal

“The cavern cracked and groaned. Dirt, rocks, and glow worms rained on their heads. With a wave of panic, Andy swung around and dashed into the next cavern. “Run!â€� The ceiling collapsed. Behind him, Medusa laughed, her snakes still hissing.”
― A.P. Mobley, The Helm of Darkness

“I might as well have turned him to granite...I don’t feel like I’m cursed and full of rage. My dirty-blonde hair doesn’t slither and hiss, but the men around me are as cold and hard as stone.”
― Skye Warren

“There is no necessity for capitalism to be monstrous. The world has allowed this demon, this creature of Mammon, to arise like a withering Medusa in its midst, because it has refused to tackle the perennial problems of inheritance and dynastic elites serving their own interests at all times, contrary to the needs of the people.”
― Mark Romel, Social Capitalism: Against Mammonism

“Athena placed the apotropaic image of Medusa's severed head on her aegis or breastplate and on Zeus's shield. Other gorgoneia (images of Medusa's head) were installed on temples and other places to benefit from her protection, even after death. Ironically, gorgoneia were placed on heroes' shields, armor, and chariots to protect the Greek warriors engaged in destroying all threats to the new social order, including her own.”
― Joan Marler, Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom