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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe QUOTES

1 " With Edward’s death imminent, questions of whether a woman could succeed were irrelevant. The only question was, which woman? "

― Sarah Gristwood , Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

2 " Many of the battles these women fought are still relevant.

Almost thirty years ago, Antonia Fraser, in her groundbreaking book Boadicea’s Chariot, traced the line of ‘warrior queens’ from the ancient world to the Iron Lady. She identified several tropes of female leadership-the Chaste Syndrome and the Voracity Syndrome, the role of a woman as Holy (Armed) Figurehead or Peacemaker-and traced them from Celtic mythology and the Roman Empire to the female leaders of her own day: Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi. "

― Sarah Gristwood , Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe