10 Quotes by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?

Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?

The wolf is not bound to its shape. It can change form at will, transforming to a whale when it must swim in the sea. Seeing the whale, no one would ever suspect it had once been a wolf.

Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god.

Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman’s pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?

I am no longer scared of being a woman – it doesn’t make me any less a man. I am both. I am neither. I am only myself.

Why don’t you ask them to imagine what sort of Underworld punishment the gods would devise for the department’s four dead professors? Personally, I’d have the Furies tie them up while the shades of the women they murdered slowly skinned them alive to the sound of one of their own ritualistic drums. But that’s just me.

Because the ancients didn’t differentiate as easily as you do between fact and fiction. Myths illuminate a society’s behavior and beliefs on multiple levels all at the same time. So you can learn more ‘truth’ from a fictional epic than you can from a bunch of bone shards. No offense.” “Some taken.

Life attracts life.