Top 80 Natalie Haynes Quotes (2024 Update)
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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Euripides was an astonishing writer of women. He wrote more and better female roles than almost any other male playwright who has ever lived.”

51. “Euripides was an astonishing writer of women. He wrote more and better female roles than almost any other male playwright who has ever lived.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Crowds are curious things: made up of individuals, but with a character entirely their own.”

52. “Crowds are curious things: made up of individuals, but with a character entirely their own.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “You’re the one who thinks anything that doesn’t look like you must be a monster.′ ‘They have snakes for hair!’ Perseus cried. ‘Snakes are’t monsters,’ said Hermes. ‘And tusks.’ ‘Wild boar aren’t monsters either.’ ‘And wings.’ ‘I’m sure even you don’t think birds are monsters.”

53. “You’re the one who thinks anything that doesn’t look like you must be a monster.′ ‘They have snakes for hair!’ Perseus cried. ‘Snakes are’t monsters,’ said Hermes. ‘And tusks.’ ‘Wild boar aren’t monsters either.’ ‘And wings.’ ‘I’m sure even you don’t think birds are monsters.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?”

54. “Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Men often kill for trophies.”

55. “Men often kill for trophies.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?”

56. “There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “You aren’t monsters,’ Medusa said. ‘Neither are you. Who decides what is a monster?’ ‘I don’t know,’ said Medusa. ‘Men, I suppose.’ ‘So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our teeth, our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.”

57. “You aren’t monsters,’ Medusa said. ‘Neither are you. Who decides what is a monster?’ ‘I don’t know,’ said Medusa. ‘Men, I suppose.’ ‘So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our teeth, our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “But feeling fear was not the same as lacking courage. Anyone could be brave if he felt no fear. The Trojans murmured that this was true of Achilles, this was why he was so lethal. He rode into battle on his chariot, with no care whether he lived or died. None at all. He cared only for the safety of his friend, for Patroclus.”

58. “But feeling fear was not the same as lacking courage. Anyone could be brave if he felt no fear. The Trojans murmured that this was true of Achilles, this was why he was so lethal. He rode into battle on his chariot, with no care whether he lived or died. None at all. He cared only for the safety of his friend, for Patroclus.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Why should the past be any guarantee of the future?”

59. “Why should the past be any guarantee of the future?”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Euryale liked humans... She liked the way they were so prone to anxiety and haste.”

60. “Euryale liked humans... She liked the way they were so prone to anxiety and haste.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “He thinks anyone who is not like him is a monster: have you noticed? And any monster needs killing.”

61. “He thinks anyone who is not like him is a monster: have you noticed? And any monster needs killing.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “And if history has taught us anything, it is that women making a noise – whether speaking or shouting – tend to be viewed as intrinsically disruptive.”

62. “And if history has taught us anything, it is that women making a noise – whether speaking or shouting – tend to be viewed as intrinsically disruptive.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Agamemnon, she could see, was not. He spent a great deal of time telling everyone about his unparalleled importance, but he rarely wished to make the choices that a king must. How such a weak and petty man had risen to such a position of authority, she had wondered more than once. She had concluded that the Greeks’ selfishness was the cause: every man looked out for himself first and his men second, and the other Greeks after that, if at all. Merit was decided by what a man had, not what he did.”

63. “Agamemnon, she could see, was not. He spent a great deal of time telling everyone about his unparalleled importance, but he rarely wished to make the choices that a king must. How such a weak and petty man had risen to such a position of authority, she had wondered more than once. She had concluded that the Greeks’ selfishness was the cause: every man looked out for himself first and his men second, and the other Greeks after that, if at all. Merit was decided by what a man had, not what he did.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “No one could help being afraid of something. And being afraid of dying must be especially awful, because there was no hope of avoiding it.”

64. “No one could help being afraid of something. And being afraid of dying must be especially awful, because there was no hope of avoiding it.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “In the small hours of the morning, when men and women whispered their secret prayers, they were to her. They begged not for health and long life, as they did during daylight hours. They begged for the blinding, deafening force of lust to be visited upon them, and they begged for reciprocation.”

65. “In the small hours of the morning, when men and women whispered their secret prayers, they were to her. They begged not for health and long life, as they did during daylight hours. They begged for the blinding, deafening force of lust to be visited upon them, and they begged for reciprocation.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Their stories should be read, seen, heard in all their difficult, messy, murderous detail. They aren’t simple, because nothing interesting is simple.”

66. “Their stories should be read, seen, heard in all their difficult, messy, murderous detail. They aren’t simple, because nothing interesting is simple.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “She saw all his vanity and pettiness and wondered why mortals worshipped any god like this.”

67. “She saw all his vanity and pettiness and wondered why mortals worshipped any god like this.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “He loses his wife so he stirs up an army to bring her back to him, costing countless lives and creating countless widows, orphans and slaves. Oenone loses her husband and she raises their son. Which of those is the more heroic act?”

68. “He loses his wife so he stirs up an army to bring her back to him, costing countless lives and creating countless widows, orphans and slaves. Oenone loses her husband and she raises their son. Which of those is the more heroic act?”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “So you’re homesick for somewhere you’ve never been?”

69. “So you’re homesick for somewhere you’ve never been?”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “There was something displeasing about mortals, which the gods never spoke about, because they all knew it to be true. They had a strange smell – faint, when they were young, ripening to a stench as they grew old – but always present. It was the odour of death. Even the healthy ones, the uninjured, even children had it, this invisible, indelible mark.”

70. “There was something displeasing about mortals, which the gods never spoke about, because they all knew it to be true. They had a strange smell – faint, when they were young, ripening to a stench as they grew old – but always present. It was the odour of death. Even the healthy ones, the uninjured, even children had it, this invisible, indelible mark.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “It’s important that you know this because he will try to claim there was a battle. But there is no battle to be had between an armed man and a sleeping girl. Don’t forget.”

71. “It’s important that you know this because he will try to claim there was a battle. But there is no battle to be had between an armed man and a sleeping girl. Don’t forget.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “No sea god would want to feel so weakened. A shudder ran through Sthenno as she thought of what she had lost: the sweet sense of owning herself and her feelings, of having no concerns at all, or only the very mildest kind. All of this was gone, exchanged without warning for a cold, gripping panic whenever a child stumbled or hid or cried. This, she knew, was love. And she felt it even though she did not want it.”

72. “No sea god would want to feel so weakened. A shudder ran through Sthenno as she thought of what she had lost: the sweet sense of owning herself and her feelings, of having no concerns at all, or only the very mildest kind. All of this was gone, exchanged without warning for a cold, gripping panic whenever a child stumbled or hid or cried. This, she knew, was love. And she felt it even though she did not want it.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “That is what mortals do: first they ask, then they beg, finally they bargain.”

73. “That is what mortals do: first they ask, then they beg, finally they bargain.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “News always reached Miss Marple, one way or another.”

74. “News always reached Miss Marple, one way or another.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “But one thing is certain: those daughters of Leda are a plague on their menfolk. Did Odysseus worry that he would receive a similar welcome here on Ithaca? That I, the devout Penelope, would treat him as Clytemnestra had treated her husband? The idea is preposterous. My name is a byword for patience and loyalty, no matter which bard sings it. But that is my Odysseus. And your Odysseus. Always finding things out the hard way.”

75. “But one thing is certain: those daughters of Leda are a plague on their menfolk. Did Odysseus worry that he would receive a similar welcome here on Ithaca? That I, the devout Penelope, would treat him as Clytemnestra had treated her husband? The idea is preposterous. My name is a byword for patience and loyalty, no matter which bard sings it. But that is my Odysseus. And your Odysseus. Always finding things out the hard way.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Yet, in my heart of hearts, I know I have never in my life wanted to eat anything so much as a sachet of silica gel, on which someone has stamped the words ‘Do Not Eat’.”

76. “Yet, in my heart of hearts, I know I have never in my life wanted to eat anything so much as a sachet of silica gel, on which someone has stamped the words ‘Do Not Eat’.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Mortals are all the same,′ she said to her sisters. ‘They think their concerns are everyone’s concerns.”

77. “Mortals are all the same,′ she said to her sisters. ‘They think their concerns are everyone’s concerns.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “The failure of his mission is assured from the moment he undertakes it. There is something cripplingly true about this, isn’t there? That we are so often the authors of our own misfortunes because of the same qualities which makes us brave, or hopeful, or loving in the first place. This Orpheus hasn’t been gripped by madness, he has been afflicted by fear. And because the fear eventually overwhelms him, the thing he feared comes true.”

78. “The failure of his mission is assured from the moment he undertakes it. There is something cripplingly true about this, isn’t there? That we are so often the authors of our own misfortunes because of the same qualities which makes us brave, or hopeful, or loving in the first place. This Orpheus hasn’t been gripped by madness, he has been afflicted by fear. And because the fear eventually overwhelms him, the thing he feared comes true.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “But the verb in Pandora’s name is active, not passive: literally she is all-giving rather than all-gifted.”

79. “But the verb in Pandora’s name is active, not passive: literally she is all-giving rather than all-gifted.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Amazons – even when one is exceptional – are a team, a tribe, a gang, and it is this which Buffy captured so perfectly: an ensemble of women fighting to save us all.”

80. “Amazons – even when one is exceptional – are a team, a tribe, a gang, and it is this which Buffy captured so perfectly: an ensemble of women fighting to save us all.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “I know when you talk of beauty you mean something different from what I mean.’ ‘I see.’ He took a step towards her, and she forced herself not to take a step back. ‘So what do you mean by beauty, little Gorgon?’ ‘Euryale tends every one of her sheep like it is a child. Sthenno learned to cook so she could feed me when I was little. They care about me and protect me. That is beauty.”

81. “I know when you talk of beauty you mean something different from what I mean.’ ‘I see.’ He took a step towards her, and she forced herself not to take a step back. ‘So what do you mean by beauty, little Gorgon?’ ‘Euryale tends every one of her sheep like it is a child. Sthenno learned to cook so she could feed me when I was little. They care about me and protect me. That is beauty.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “There’s never any real need to say something hurtful unless you can’t help it.”

82. “There’s never any real need to say something hurtful unless you can’t help it.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “Every myth contains multiple timelines within itself: the time in which it is set, the time it is first told, and every retelling afterwards.”

83. “Every myth contains multiple timelines within itself: the time in which it is set, the time it is first told, and every retelling afterwards.”

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Natalie Haynes Quote: “At first, he was almost torn apart by dogs. He had forgotten – of course he had – that the swineherd’s dogs were not the same ones that had barked at strangers when he was last on Ithaca. Dogs cannot wait as long as wives: these hounds were the pups of the pups of the original dogs, I should think.”

84. “At first, he was almost torn apart by dogs. He had forgotten – of course he had – that the swineherd’s dogs were not the same ones that had barked at strangers when he was last on Ithaca. Dogs cannot wait as long as wives: these hounds were the pups of the pups of the original dogs, I should think.”

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