I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.
Euripides, Medea.
“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
“Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the great...”
“Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive”
“or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours”
“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”
“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”
“Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.”
“Old loves are dropped when new ones come”
“Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”
“All of us lived life when sex was the farthest thing from our minds. Try to remember the careless freedom of play, basking in the beingness of others. As adults, responsibilities and obligations ca...”