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

When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

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.

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