Theodora Quotes

• It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.

  Theodora

  Animal, World, Fit

  95 Copy quote

• For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

  Theodora

  Kings, Words Of Wisdom, Exile

  96 Copy quote

• Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

  Theodora

  Royalty, Fine, Burial

  70 Copy quote

• For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

  Theodora

  Thrones, Glorious, Maxims

  65 Copy quote

• I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

  Theodora

  Reputation, Wide

  41 Copy quote

• Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!

  Theodora

  World, Rings, Adieu

  42 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin