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«With her unmistakable pout and jutting breasts Brigitte Bardot was more than just a goddess. For a war-weary generation she came to personify a new, liberated, sun-soaked, carefree France.»
Author: Diana Geddes
| Keywords:
Bardot, breasts, Brigitte Bardot, carefree, France, goddess, jutting, liberated, personified, personify, pout, pouted, soak, soaked, unmistakable, weary
«The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Women
| Keywords:
dark ages, estimate, goddess, Great Goddess, increasing, savages, sentimental, toy
«Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Love,
Marriage
| Keywords:
goddess, Good Natured, Juno, mortal enemy, shrew, shrews, Venus
«Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aesthete, aesthetes, edifying, goddess, putrefaction, set in, worshipped
«To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
anesthesia, goddess, gods and goddesses, Greek, Greek a, perpetual, young man, young woman
«When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman»
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