57 Quotes by Stephanie Dray

Honor. Men would fight and die for it. Women would lie for it.

True respect if formed when you find something upon which you disagree and yet remain on good terms.

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.

I was startled when a knock came at door and instead of a servant- in walked a hallucination, or apparition or miracle- I couldn't decide which.

Death, well done, is a gateway from this world into another. It needn’t be the end of anything. - Cleopatra

I could never, ever, lean on him or my sister or anyone else. I hadn't chose a life in which I may be cared for and pampered. I'd chosen a different path. And I ought to be grateful..., I told myself, for having obliged me to exert all the strength and energy I had at my disposal. Because in this exercise, the mind acquires strength to bear up against evils that would otherwise overcome it.

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

Ann and baby Ginny are sweet enough to rot teeth

Like my father, I began to count things for comfort. Twenty-three was the number of years I'd been married to Tom Randolph. Nine was the number of children we had, with another on the way. Forty four was my husbands age....