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Medea Medea by Liz Lochhead
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“tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!”
― Euripides, Medea
“She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.”
― Euripides, Medea
“She sings a dark destructive song.”
― Euripides, Medea
“Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.”
― Euripides, Medea
“What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?”
― Euripides, Medea
“No one who goes against her can win.”
― Euripides, Medea
“Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.”
― Euripides, Medea
“A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man”
― Euripides, Medea
“And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.”
― Euripides, Medea
“All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.”
― Euripides, Medea
“We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.”
― Euripides, Medea
“power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.”
― Euripides, Medea
“So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.”
― Euripides, Medea
“Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.”
― Euripides, Medea
“Go home to your wife. Go bury her.”
― Euripides, Medea
“Is love so small a pain for a woman?”
― Euripides, Medea
“Tanrıların tanıklığına başvuruyorum, çocuklarımı
öldürdüğün yetmiyormuş gibi, onlara dokunmama
ve cenazelerini kaldırmama da izin vermiyorsun.
Ah, keşke hiç doğmasalardı ve hiç görmeseydim
bu şekilde vahşice öldürüldüklerini.”
― Euripides, Medea
“Seni hak ettiğin şekilde
cezalandırdım ya, artık bana dişi aslan ya da
Tyrheneli Skylla desen de hiç umurumda değil!”
― Euripides, Medea
“Çekinme, hatırlama ne kadar çok sevdiğini
ve nasıl doğurduğunu çocuklarını.
Bugün, sadece bugün unut, sonra tutarsın
yaslarını. Öldürmüş de olsan çok sevmiştin
onları ve mutsuz bir kadınsın şimdi.”
― Euripides, Medea
“Haydi yüreğim, silahlan! Kaçınılmaz cinayeti
işlemekte neden kararsız duruyorsun böyle?
Haydi zavallı elim, kılıcı kavrayıp
aşıver hayatının bu acı dönüm noktasını.”
― Euripides, Medea