Guillermina Olmedo

“It’s enough to make you wonder if the ideal wife is one you scarcely even see, let alone spend any real time with.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“From one distance a thing looks bright. From another it looks dark. You think you’ve found the truth when you’ve replaced the cheerful view by the opposite, but true profundity blends all possible views, bright as well as dark.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books

“As an adjective in Greek, pandora is usually used to describe the earth, the all-giving thing which sustains life.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“For an all-female group of Athenians, the words would be hai Athenaiai. I say ‘would be’ because that phrase is not found anywhere in extant Greek literature:21 no one ever needs to refer to a group of Athenian women, because they aren’t important.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths