Circe madeline miller quotes

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"Life is not so simple as a loom. What you weave, you cannot unravel with a tug." - Circe by Madeline Miller #book_quote #circe #madeline_miller #quotesdaily #booklover #life_quote

Last year there seemed to be a real trend for feminist retellings of Greek stories. I had to read the Iliad and the Odyssey as part of my English lit degree and really enjoyed delving into these stories that had at least in part made their way into modern pop culture (who hasn't heard of Icarus flying too close to the sun, in some form?). Circe really brought me back to that but from a whole different direction, which I loved. Circe is the witch who kept Odysseus trapped on her island whilst…