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Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our sex is void of reason Know ‘tis a slander now, but once was tre

~ Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet Clichés Elizabeth I Empowerment Equality Gender Mysogyny Stereotypes Women

Elizabeth's whole style of rule was pragmatic and free from preconceptions. It was not that she had no strategic aims, but they were broad and simple. God had entrusted her with three things: a realm to defend; a church to lead in the true way; and a people to protect, both against foreign enemies and against themselves.

~ David Loades

David Loades Elizabeth I History

In no issue of foreign policy could her prevarication and indecisiveness be said to have led to disastrous consequences for her country. On the international stage there was no better survivor. At home her achievement can only be judged with hindsight. A combination of good sense and longevity settled the church, and it was no fault of hers that confessional issues became so divisive forty years after her death. She gave her country pride, and set its commercial development on a course that was eventually to be spectacularly successful; for that she deserves more credit than she is usually given.

~ David Loades

David Loades Elizabeth I History

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

~ Jeane Westin

Jeane Westin Elizabeth I Forgiveness Quotes Memory

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Elizabeth I Love Monarch On Monsieur S Departure Poem Queen

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

~ Alison Weir

Alison Weir Elizabeth I Silence Silence Speaks

Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.

~ Jeane Westin

Jeane Westin Elizabeth I Emotions Feeling Alive Pain

Only danger is real, and difficulty. Yet we live to make our lives safe - and those of others. (..) I will fight my own people to keep them from fighting, for as long as can be. Never fight, until it is unsafe not to fight, unsafe for our souls as well as our bodies. Then fight for their safety, - but when it is won, remember that safety itself is unsafe. For what is safety? It is sleepy thing. It does not make one happy. It does not remind one that it is good to be alive. Life is taken for granted, so it is no longer surprise. It grows dull and monotonous, one lives as a tree or a cabbage or a cow in the straw of the byre. Our forefathers scorned a straw death. A straw life is worse.

~ Margaret Irwin

Margaret Irwin Elizabeth I Historical Fiction

It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.

~ Margaret Irwin

Margaret Irwin Elizabeth I Historical Fiction
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