Medusa Quotes

“In general, I find that most monsters are made, not born. Perhaps you should remember that next time you encounter one.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“I had hurled my anger and hatred at the world, spreading misery in a vain attempt to stifle my own. I should have expected it to be thrown back in my face, shouldn't I? After all, violence only ever breeds more violence.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“But history is written by the winners. Or, more simply, history is written by men.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“Our fragile patriarchy could hardly accept a female monster who can kill men and think for herself. That would be far too scary, wouldn’t it?”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“These days I am tired of running from the pieces of myself I cannot escape. Like broken shards I have tried to brush under the rug, I always know they are still there and that ultimately I will never be fully complete without them. I cannot escape my past because it is a part of who I am today.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“It is human nature to weave our own thread into each story we tell, adding a little piece of ourselves into the narrative.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“I cannot escape my past because it is a part of who I am today. That is something that has taken me a long time to accept.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“One day, you will come to realise that people will always try and wriggle out of the uncomfortable truths, choosing instead to cushion their fragile egos with the lies they want to hear. Well, now I realise, it is our job to make them listen.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“I watch, outraged yet not entirely surprised, as the same tragedy echoes throughout generations, leaving an endless trail of broken victims and unscathed perpetrators.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“man can sing endlessly of a woman’s beauty, but if she acknowledges it herself she is immediately the villain?”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“had never experienced death before that day and I had never known pain like it. I was so full of emotion, my entire body ached with it, and yet I somehow felt completely empty, like a vast, bottomless pit had opened up inside me.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“I find that most monsters are made, not born.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“But power is a dangerous thing. Intoxicating and all-consuming. It is a type of poison that infects your whole being, rotting you from the inside out.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“The question that bothers me most is why some memories are lost forever within its folds, whilst others stand out, everlasting?”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“True strength only comes from suffering. And that is why I was so damn powerful.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“These days I am tired of running from the pieces of myself I cannot' escape. Like broken shards I have tried to brush under the rug, I always know they are still there and that ultimately I will never be fully complete without them. I cannot escape my past because it is a part of who I am today.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa