Patience Quote by Michael Chabon

“Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“She would have been obliged to allow, if any one had said it to her, that what she submitted to could not take the…

— George Eliot

“Her dullness made her own punishment.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kresley Cole

“ Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.”

— S.M. Stirling

“It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.”

— Michael Foucault

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists,…

— Geoff Ryman

“The threatening to, harsh aggression, made her submissive. (Across Time And Space)”

— Mala Naidoo

“She was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant one had…

— Elizabeth von Arnim