Status Updates From Hera

'No one will know how oddly stinging it was to hear him mention her youth. She's a goddess; she hasn't aged since those days. She never has to fear the creep of wrinkles; there will be no sagging of her skin, no hunching or withering, no weakening with time. But inside, she feels the ache of the centuries that have passed and the heaviness of all her extinguished hopes.'

'Being the goddess of the downtrodden woman is even worse than being the goddess of mar-riage. They can't be the same thing; she can't bear for that to be true. 'He took everything from me except for this,' she says. 'Athena has his ear, and his respect. Poseidon has the seas, and Hades has the dead. But I'm queen.''