These Goddess quotes will inspire you. The goddess is a female deity. Deities were associated with virtues such as beauty, love, sexuality, motherhood, creativity, and fertility (such as the worship of the ancient mother goddess).
In some faiths, a sacred female figure holds a central place in religious prayer and worship. For example, Shaktism, the worship of the female force that animates the world, is one of the three major sects of Hinduism.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and goddess quotes, goddess sayings, and goddess proverbs.
Inspirational Goddess Quotes
- “The Goddess doesn’t enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.” ~ Marianne Williamson
- “All women are goddesses, and it’s just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine – and if you don’t try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.” ~ Kimora Lee Simmons
- “Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.” ~ Francesca Lia Block
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“The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.” ~ Starhawk
- “The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.” ~ Starhawk
- “I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself” ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, Goddess quotes for her
- “The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.” ~ Starhawk, Divine goddess quotes
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“I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “… in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
- “There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “You think I’m not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you’ll burn.” ~ Margaret Atwood
- “Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.” ~ Starhawk
- “The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.” ~ Starhawk
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“A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.” ~ Nalini Singh
- “The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.” ~ Zsuzsanna Budapest
- “But I can tell you I myself have made many mistakes. Things sometimes I would be ashamed to admit. But if it weren’t for those mistakes I wouldn’t have seen the beauty in me. I wouldn’t have awoken the goddess that lives in me. You see, goddesses although immortal were all flawed. They were all a bit extreme at their calling, and they were all betrayed and hurt at some point. They were even considered devious but what made them unique was their strength.” ~ Mirtha Michelle
- “The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.” ~ Patricia Monaghan
- “Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess– so she strikes our eyes!” ~ Homer
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“Every girl is a goddess.” ~ Francesca Lia Block
- “The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.” ~ Rajneesh
- “God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is – the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
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“All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals” ~ Doreen Valiente
- “Women’s stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman’s story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.” ~ Jalaja Bonheim, Every woman goddess quotes
- “The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.” ~ Carol P. Christ
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“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
- “We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There’s a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don’t think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.” ~ Isabel Allende
- “Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.” ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
- “You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a ‘goddess circle’.” ~ Jennifer Aniston
- “Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women’s lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women’s menstrual cycles.” ~ Carol P. Christ
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“For me, the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.” ~ Tina Turner
- “Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are‚ that’s a goddess.” ~ BANKS, Goddess quotes brave
- “Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.” ~ Christopher McDowell
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“Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.” ~ Homer
- “We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth’s holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
- “I know it’s hard for women to tap into that feeling of self-worth. We need to get the message out that you are valued, you are a goddess and don’t forget that.” ~ Jennifer Lopez
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“Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.” ~ Ivan Panin
- “Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess’s magic.” ~ Cate Tiernan
- “Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world’s cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.” ~ Phyllis Chesler
- “Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, forever couched on her throne.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck, Goddess quotes wisdom
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“O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.” ~ Lucretius
- “The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.” ~ Cate Tiernan
- “The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts – Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.” ~ Starhawk
- “Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.” ~ Cate Tiernan
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“Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.” ~ Rachel Pollack
- “Call it “womb awe” or even “womb worship” but it’s not simple envy. I don’t remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence… It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world… Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?” ~ Sam Keen
- “We do not want merely to see beauty… we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.” ~ Dan Brown
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“I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.” ~ Rob Brezsny
- “Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.” ~ Mary Daly
- “I call myself a ‘domestic goddess.” ~ Roseanne Barr
- “Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.” ~ Ken Wilber
- “Well,’ the Goddess said, ‘your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.” ~ Jane Yolen
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“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.” ~ Dion Fortune
- “My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.” ~ John Green
- “Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.” ~ Jennifer Beals, Hindu goddess quotes
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“To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.” ~ Christian Louboutin
- “But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself — avoid trying to be something you’re not. For a goddess, that’s especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite” ~ Rick Riordan
- “The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.” ~ Doreen Valiente
- “Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon the earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.” ~ John Milton
