Degan Walters

“But the question remains: is the trouble something she does, by opening a jar? Or is it something she is? Pandora is the first woman; thanks to her (according to Hesiod), the carefree age of men comes to an end. But you’ll forgive me for suggesting that an all-male age with no women (and no fire) sounds incredibly boring.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“From Persephone’s perspective, these two deities are – as the Greek text makes plain – essentially the same. One god rapes her, the other agrees to it.”
― Natalie Haynes, Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“Not only did the ancient Greeks seem to have modelled gods in their mortal image, but they apparently chose their worst selves as the template.”
― Natalie Haynes, Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“The Latin here reads fuge coniugis usum – flee the use of a husband – which I may yet have as a tattoo.”
― Natalie Haynes, Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth