“. . . Marie Antoinette established herself as a force to be reckoned with - as a queen who commanded as much attention as the most dazzling king or mistress, and whose imposing stature had nothing to do with her maternal prospects.”
Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“. . . Marie Antoinette's wardrobe was the stuff of dreams, and the space of nightmares.”
Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“[Marie Antoinette] went to great lengths to underscore the notion that the realm of Trianon was ruled by her and her alone.”
Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“Even as she faced execution, Marie Antoinette's will to control her image, to manage it through her clothing, had not left her.”
Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“Unlike a Eugenie or a Jackie, but quite like her ancestor the Sun King, Marie Antoinette helped invent fashion as a high-stakes political game - one that she played in dead earnest, and with deadly results. A winner-take-all affair, her program of singular sartorial defiance implicated not just her autonomy and her prestige, but her crown and, eventually, her life.”
Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“Oh, darling. I am France now. They call me ‘a new era’s icon of seduction.’ I’m basically Brigitte Bardot meets Marie Antoinette… if Marie Antoinette had done a lingerie campaign in the Louvre.”
Source: AcClaim
“In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears, and questions and kept them safe until Mary was older and mature enough to process the abuse and neglect she had endured.”
“მე მომხრე ვარ, რომ სკოლაში ისწავლებოდეს რელიგიის ისტორია საერთოდ. მაგრამ არა ქრისტიანობის ისტორია გამოყოფით. რელიგიის ისტორიის სწავლება ჩემთვის ნიშნავს ყველა დიდი რელიგიის -ქრისტიანობის, ისლამის, იუდაიზმის, ბუდიზმის - ძირეულ დებულებათა შედარებით შესწავლას.”
“The greatest stories are simple, but well told.”
“When one star sets, a million spring forth.”
Source: Dreams Reign Supreme