Quotes About Medea

#1. Medea? Don't worry. Satara's rooms are far enough away that you won't be subjected to the sounds of wild monkey sex. (Stryker)
Ew! You were right, Mum. I should have allowed you to cut his throat. Get me out of here as quickly as possible. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers.

Robert Graves

#3. I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.

Alice Lowe

#4. Trust me, baby, you weren't that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker)
Ew! No offense, Mum, I don't want to know who you've slept with. Kill the sexual bantering and him before I go deaf from it. (Medea)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Barbra Streisand

#6. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.

Brian McGreevy

#7. Let's get a drink," Circe suggested, pointing to the Starbucks. "Look, there's a picture of a goddess on all their stuff. Maybe they're pro-goddess." "They're probably just using us to sell their overpriced products," Medea said. But since there was little else, they both bought coffees.

Carey RavenStar Robin

#8. Your father abandoned us. (Zephyra)
I know. You've told me that enough that it's permanently seared into my brain. Still, he's a part of me and I'd like to have closure. (Medea)
You really need to stop watching Oprah. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

Eva Mendes

#10. Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.

David Vann

#11. My first paying job was a in a production of Neil LaBute's 'Bash: Latter Day Plays' at the Union Street theater in Borough. I played the 'Medea Redux' character. That was my first job out of drama school. I can't remember how much I got paid. I'm sure it was pennies.

Juliet Rylance

#12. Voice-cry. Agony
the spoken "word" exploded, blown to bits by suffering and anger, demolishing discourse: this is how she has always been heard before, ever since the time when masculine society began to push her offstage, expulsing her, plundering her. Ever since Medea, ever since Electra.

Helene Cixous

#13. What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea)
I didn't think I was snooping. It didn't feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn't it. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. You always obey him? (Medea)If I didn't want to live, I'd stop taking human souls and expire. It would be a lot less painful than crossing Stryker. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Like a night when the energy is bloody unsalvageable but the show must et cetera. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or goddamn wish fulfillment.

Brian McGreevy

#16. People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

Rachel Caine

#17. All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

Martha Graham

#18. So, on top of the betrayal, I got to feel ashamed. I got to hate myself, when the rage of Medea would have served me better; but I was ever a stranger to rage.

Susan Spano

#19. Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world's oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we're not adding anything that the Greeks didn't already know.

Christopher Fowler

#20. Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth.

Eve Tushnet

#21. Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.

David Vann

#22. Relax, Medea. We've come to see your mother. (Tory)
Your funeral. (Medea)
It's always so good to see you, too. You're just such a ray of happy sunshine. I so look forward to all our interactions. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. When arrogant hands once seize power, the ruler thinks authority resides in stubbornness.

Seneca.

#24. If you gain from a crime, you did it.

Seneca.

#25. A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one.

Seneca.

#26. A family formed by crime must be broken by more crime.

Seneca.

#27. I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

Medea Benjamin

#28. To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Euripides

#29. No one who goes against her can win.

Euripides

#30. The one who knows no hope knows no despair.

Seneca.

#31. O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

Euripides

#32. If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

Medea Benjamin

#33. I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.

Medea Benjamin

#34. I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

Medea Benjamin

#35. I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

Medea Benjamin

#36. What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

Euripides

#37. When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: "drones."

Medea Benjamin

#38. Kingdoms which act unjustly never last.

Seneca.

#39. The mind of a queen
Is a thing to fear. A queen is used
To giving commands, not obeying them;
And her rage once roused is hard to appease.

Euripides

#40. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

#41. Poor woman, do you want to know where hatred ends? Look to love.

Seneca.

#42. My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.

Euripides

#43. Israel is run by war criminals.

Medea Benjamin

#44. death is the only water to wash away this dirt

Euripides

#45. no man,
is ever happy, no one.

Euripides

#46. No time is too short for criminals to do wrong.

Seneca.

#47. Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

Medea Benjamin

#48. We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

Medea Benjamin

#49. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.

Euripides