Warriors, Witches, Women Quotes

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.’ – MAYA ANGELOU”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“As long as the hearts of our women are high, the nation will live. But should the hearts of our women be on the ground, then all is lost.’ – CHEYENNE PROVERB”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren’t able to burn.”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.’ – CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“I raise up my voice – not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard … we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.’ – MALALA YOUSAFZAI”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defence, and as courageous as either one.’ – GLORIA STEINEM”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“We will not wait to be offered the leftovers from the feast. We will arrive in a whirl of wings and talons and pick off what belongs to us. Yes, we are angry, yes we are making a noise about it, and yes, we are hungry for change. We are harpies.”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.’ – CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women’s aggression isn’t considered real. It isn’t dangerous; it’s only cute. Or it’s always self-defence or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster – an “unnatural’ woman”.’ – KATHERINE DUNN”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“Anger is a vital element in social change and progression, a motivation for political action, but women who display it are often condemned as irrational. Through the centuries, girls have been told that it is unladylike to be angry. The Furies lay waste to this stereotype, defiantly unrepentant about their dedication to justice.”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“More politically, Medusa has become shorthand for a particular brand of strong female agency perceived as aggressive or ‘unladylike’. Marie Antoinette was depicted with snake-like hair in French seventeenth-century cartoons, while in the early twentieth century, anti-suffragette postcards likened the protesters to the monster. During the 2016 American election campaign, the image of Hillary Clinton’s snake-bedecked, raging head being cut off by her Republican rival Donald Trump – compared to Perseus – appeared on unofficial merchandise. Similarly, another strong female leader, German chancellor Angela Merkel, has found herself depicted as a Gorgon. These portrayals reinforce a millennia-old message from men to women: keep your mouth shut or we’ll shut it for you.”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

“In contrast to most cultures’ nurturing, peaceful take on childbirth, Aztecs viewed labour as a war. Pregnant women were warriors, readied to take on a bloody battle by their sergeants-at-arms, midwives, who prepared them for motherhood in a series of sweat bath rituals. This acceptance of, and preparation for, the visceral process of childbirth was a realistic view – these mothers didn’t bring a child into the world smilingly and serene, they fought hard to keep the baby and themselves alive and healthy. Some historians have even argued that motherhood was established as the blueprint for bravery before Meso-American society required fighters. Women who died during childbirth were considered to be casualties of combat and honoured accordingly.”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females