“Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I couldn’t open that well inside me, or I’d never get it closed again.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
