There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
Elizabeth ITags: elizabeth-i
Proud Prelate, you know what you were before I made you what you are. If you do not immediately comply with my request I will unfrock you by God"!
Elizabeth ITags: elizabeth-i
Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be
Elizabeth ITags: elizabeth-i the-virgin-quenn
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
Tags: love poem queen elizabeth-i monarch on-monsieur-s-departure
This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.
John AubreyTags: history humour queen-elizabeth elizabeth-i earl-of-oxford edward-de-vere
Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.
Kathryn LaskyTags: royalty elizabeth-i
Now say, have women worth, or have they none?
Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone?
Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long,
But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong.
Let such as say our sex is void of reason
Know ‘tis a slander now, but once was treason."
(In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth)
Tags: empowerment equality gender women stereotypes clichés mysogyny elizabeth-i
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