Quotes About Amazons

#1. Women critics are amazons in climax.

Faina Ranevskaya

#2. they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch and Alan Bennett. They could all be readers, and maybe even uncommon ones.

Will Schwalbe

#3. I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons."
"If you're the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks?

Kresley Cole

#4. Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

Arthur Ransome

#5. I guess the Greeks weren't big fans of online shopping, because they had lots of wars with the Amazons.

Rick Riordan

#6. One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but ... " (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood.

Susan J. Douglas

#7. I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn ... but the troops were dazzled.

James Goldman

#8. We are the Amazons, killers of men. Only the feeble-headed try their luck with us.

Anne Fortier

#9. We are the Amazons" said Myrina."We are the killers of beasts and men. Wild ourselves, we inhabit the wild places. Freedom courses in our blood, and death whispers at the tip of our arrows. We fear nothing, fear runs from us. Try to stop us, and you will feel our rage.

Anne Fortier

#10. We Amazons-we would prefer to live life to the fullest. We love, we fight, we die.

Rick Riordan

#11. I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

Anne Fortier

#12. Fang let out a low whistle. "Anyone know that Amazons could ride a giant bird?"
Ethon gave him a duh stare. "Those of us who fought them, yeah, we know. How you think they keep kicking our asses?"
"Cause you're pansies. Everyone knows that.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.

Adrianne Ambrose

#14. At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson thrillers, and a throne from about a thousand copies of something called The Five Habits of Highly Aggressive Women.

Rick Riordan

#15. Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.

Stieg Larsson

#16. It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you're so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time Amazon is not so bad after all.
-Author's Note, Anne Fortier

Anne Fortier

#17. College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

H.L. Mencken

#18. I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age

Adrianne Ambrose

#19. You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

James Mangold

#20. Remember: women may not be too weak
To strike a blow.
-Sophocles, Electra

Anne Fortier

#21. We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.

Paulo Coelho

#22. When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before.

Tama J. Kieves

#23. No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Junior Seau