Quotes about queens
queens kings children
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it. Ursula K. Le Guin
queens adequate firsts
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. Wyndham Lewis