Friendship Quote by Helen Rappaport

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a…

— Jane Austen

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“And in my village we have a saying about separated sisters. They are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite…

— Yaa Gyasi

“The ladies who came to the palace tended to be less aggressive physically. But their words could probably start wars if said in the…

— Kiera Cass

“Images of being empress next to Mehmed haunted her when she closed her eyes. It was the worst part of everything, knowing that, on…

— Kiersten White

“It was the worst kind of silence, but a good kind of closeness. These weren't her folk, but...they were, and maybe that meant that…

— Laini Taylor

“The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated…

— Yukio Mishima

“The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. How artfully she beckons, how perfectly she punishes....”

— Kresley Cole

“She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless…

— Jack Ketchum

“The need to humiliate those who raise their heads is an ineradicable element of the imperial mentality. In”

— Noam Chomsky