My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.

...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.