“Probably so. I’m a sinner with more faults than you imagine, Patsy. But you’re the friend to which my soul is unalterably attached, so… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“The happiness of your life depends now on pleasing a single person. To this, I know all other objects must be secondary, even your… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“There are only three kinds of ink that rulers use to write their stories. Sweat, blood, or tears. So choose your ink carefully, because… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“People forgot the fragility of our enterprise as a new nation, and sometimes forgot, too, how much we owed France for it.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“Tell your papa I’ll call upon him soon. Mr. Jefferson is still very much needed here in Paris, where his revolution remains undone. In… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“I now saw union between man and woman was the same as union among the states—as a series of debates and compromises that might… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity life follows my pen. The days and hours of it are… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
“Death, well done, is a gateway from this world into another. It needn’t be the end of anything. - Cleopatra” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share
