The Amazons Quotes

“The universal quest to find balance and harmony between men and women, beings who are at once so alike and so different, lies at the heart of all Amazon tales.”
― Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

“Archaeology reveals that about one out of three or four nomad women of the steppes was an active warrior buried with her weapons.”
― Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

“Strabo also described the sexual mores of the mountain tribes of Media (northwestern Iran): the men have up to five women and 'likewise the women believe it honorable to have as many men as possible and consider less than five a calamity.”
― Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World

“But now Heracles and his men are the first Greeks to drop anchor at Themiscyra, the Amazons’ stronghold. The men pitch their tents on the beach.”
― Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World