History Quote by Sandi Toksvig

Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore - a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she was willing…

— Ming-Na Wen

“The princess stops us walking. She holds the lantern up between us, and she looks at me with the eyes of all the princesses…

— Lauren DeStefano

“I know i'm making her sound like something out of a story. But it was the other way around. When my mother told me…

— Naomi Novik

“When did I turn into a needywhiny angsty idiot who needed to be swept off her feet? She snorted then started running again, forcing…

— Diana Rowland

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

— Yang Lan

“From the small of her back, up to her shoulder blades, a delicate yet extravagant piece created, no doubt, by one of the monks…

— James A. Newman

“We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can’t escape what we are... obedient chinese daughters.”

— Lisa See

“Dai Tregarron had called her Olwen, had spoken to her as if she were a creature capable of escape from the commonplace, not the…

— Anne Perry

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The…

— Lisa Cach

“in Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Mrs. Loontwill’s face, that of a pretty woman who had aged without realizing it, screwed itself up into a grimace Alexia supposed was meant…

— Gail Carriger

“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in the sea?…

— Mira Grant