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“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Has Beens Ideas Activity Universal Connected Empresses

Book:The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

“I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.”

Women Wife Not Interested Empresses

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.”

Seems Moral Class Imagine Middle Fashion Style Clothes Ideals Posts Revolutionary Rising Appropriate Middle Class Elegant Victorian Epoch Artificiality Empresses

Author:James Laver

“Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.”

Suffering Lifetime Unhappy Unhappiness Empresses

Author:Empress Dowager Cixi

“Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.”

Giving Art States Fall Loses Remains Divinity Faculty Diligence Straws Invocation Empresses

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.”

Becoming Heavy Tails Wags Empresses

Author:Empress Dowager Cixi

“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”

Men Writing Power Lucky Paper Skins Patient Philosopher Unfortunate Susceptible Lucky Man Empresses

Author:Catherine the Great

“There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.”

Has Beens Book Evil Written Taught Periods China Bothered Textbooks Orchids Empresses

Author:Anchee Min

“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”

People Knows Want May Strong Parent Behinds Growing Up Wise Fool Clothes Adults Convince Mask Adulthood Daddy Posture Empresses Mommy And Daddy

Author:Frank Pittman

“I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.”

Way Writing Break Nice Crazy Illness Bars Mental Illness Chocolate Typewriters Aprons Chocolate Bars Empresses

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.”

Writing Years Art Wanted Guy Pleasure Mark Absolutes Scripts This Guy Empresses

Author:Mark Millar

“For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!”

Soul Whole Past Fall Walks Forget Trouble Love You Victim My Soul Farewell Falling Down Empresses

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you propose?" "I think it's time to try riding astride". "You can't mean..." "Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress.”

Thinking Should Trying Mean Today Crosses Lists Riding Items Propose Empresses

Author:Sarah MacLean

“I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty." He chuckled. I wasn't kidding.”

May Said Casts Call Me Glances Admirer Highness Empresses

Book:Animal Instincts

Source: Animal Instincts

“If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.”

Ifs Men Worthy Emperor Empresses

Book:Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

Ifs Effort Comfort Calm Spread Generous Selfless Success In Life Detachment Finding Peace Selfless Love Disinterested Empresses

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi”

Wife Higher India Indian Designation Empresses

Author:Virchand Gandhi

“The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.”

Said Circles Empresses

Author:Robert Jordan

“The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.”

Wish Magnificent Wish You Fantasia Empresses Never Ending Story

Author:Tami Stronach

“In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India,” with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.”

Long Saws Areas India British London Locals Queens Empires Colonialism Ruling Victoria Mutiny Reorganization Empresses Great Empires

Author:Webster Tarpley

“The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”

Politics Politician Republican Mad Socialist Cousin My Cousin Empresses

Author:Napoleon III

“Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.”

“Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.”

Crazy Sweet Charming Aunt Lunatic Empresses

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.”

Lasts Type Police Meetings Reports Articles Bias Headlines Paragraph Singapore Prominent Spas Empresses

Book:The Singapore Story (Student Edition): Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Source: The Singapore Story (Student Edition): Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

“What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.”

Knows Men States Law Knowing Rights Duty Ill Dare Globes Thrones Sovereign Empresses

Author:William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

“Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.”

Kind Beautiful Imagination Quality Youth Dresses Rose Affection Delight Merit Destructive Frank Marvellous Amiable Confiding Empresses

Book:The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…

Source: The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…

“She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.”

Wells Science Mother Literature Known Slave Chinese Drivers Biographies Well Known Militant Empresses

Author:Emilio G. Segre