People
Amazon is an eponym, derived from the legend, for any woman warrior or athlete, including:
- Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
- The Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey
- The Amazonian Guard, an all-female elite bodyguard unit to protect then Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
- Amazon feminism, a branch of feminism that emphasizes female physical prowess
- The Los Angeles Amazons, a women's semi-professional American football team
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“The only people who treasure systems are those whom the whole truth evades, who want to catch it by the tail. A system is just like truth’s tail, but the truth is like a lizard. It will leave the tail in your hand and escape; it knows that it will soon grow another tail.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“Lord, how long?”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 6:11.
Asking how long will the chastisement of the people last. God replies, “Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed man far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”
“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)