Karen Essex Quotes

You must never deprive the people of their belief in the power of the gods, and you must never deprive yourself of it either.

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.

Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work thei...

It is a woman's burden to suffer the machinations and destruction of men.

Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.

You see, Great Caesar. she said, this is the way in which mortals retain the power of the divine---in every earthly choice they make. 'But it's a paradox.' he said. 'Human beings are in control of eve...

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

Ho personalmente sezionato la lingua, e benché non abbia trovato muscoli specifici per i pettegolezzi, questo sembra lo scopo principale di quell'organo-almeno a corte.

Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

One must either rule side by side or be subdued entirely.

The people call it a miracle; the scientists call it invention. But the invention is miraculous, is it not?

Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.

It is not that I do not approve. Whatever a man's passion, he must pursue them, unless they offend God.

The rich rarely give a black dog for a white monkey, my friend. It's the way of the world.

In the beginning, there was the voice.That was how it began on that first evening, with a masculine voice calling out to me in my sleep; a disembodied voice slithering into my dream, a voice of deep t...

I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.

All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father used to say that it is preferable to die rather than to live fearing death.

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

With eerie slowness, his finger moved down my neck to the breastbone and across my chest until it reached my nipple. Then something extraordinary happened. He held it there, barely moving but sending...