If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.