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1 " And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her... "
― Stephanie Dray , Song of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #2)
2 " But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a cruel man. A man who won't keep his word. ... In marriage, man and woman become one, and that one is the husband. "
― Stephanie Dray , America's First Daughter
3 " Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved? "
4 " I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be. "
― Stephanie Dray , Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #1)
5 " They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed. "
6 " The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean. "
― Stephanie Dray , Daughters of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #3)
7 " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. "
― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
8 " 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 were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future. "
9 " I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen. "
10 " Death, well done, is a gateway from this world into another. It needn’t be the end of anything. - Cleopatra "
11 " ...I was startled by his touch. I hadn’t realized he was so close to me, because I seemed so far from myself. "
12 " The heart swellings convince me of the folly of those who dare to think that any new ties can weaken the first and best of nature. "
13 " I’ll tell you a secret about being happy, Tom. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it becomes real. "
14 " Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers. "
15 " But the measure of a man, of a life, of a union of man and wife or even country is not in the falling. It’s in the rising back up again to repair what’s broken, to put right what’s wrong. Your father and I did that. We always did that. He never stopped trying until the day he died. And neither will I. "
16 " But I think it better, in times like these, for us to acknowledge that marriage is a choice, one made, every day, anew. "
17 " The opposite of love, I thought, was not hatred, but indifference, and for my own survival, I’d made my heart indifferent to Alexander Hamilton. "
18 " I never was a beauty. It was only that, until a few days ago, Alexander had made me feel like one. "
19 " Because the people we love are not entirely knowable. Even to themselves. But we love them anyway.The only other choice is to live without love, alone. "
20 " When the heart finds its one true desire, any separation and delay is unbearable. "
