[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.