Failure Quote by Stephanie Dray

“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

“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

“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

“I couldn’t open that well inside me, or I’d never get it closed again.”

— Stephanie Dray

“People forgot the fragility of our enterprise as a new nation, and sometimes forgot, too, how much we owed France for it.”

— Stephanie Dray

“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

“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

“Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.”

— Stephanie Dray

“I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.”

— Stephanie Dray

“Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.”

— Stephanie Dray

“And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...”

— Stephanie Dray

“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