Best 14 quotes of Stephanie Dray on MyQuotes

And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...

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

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

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

I'll tell you a secret about being happy. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it become real.

......it would be as much a grief to me as shoveling dirt over your grave. And I'd pray for someone to soon shovel dirt over mine.

...I was startled by his touch. I hadn’t realized he was so close to me, because I seemed so far from myself.

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.

So there was no one with whom I could share my bitter cup of poison. I would simply have to swallow the injustice down and lie about the taste until it killed me. Or until the shame of it burned me alive.

The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.

There's enough warmth of heart between us to live in harmony, Tom. But upon such subjects as we cannot agree, we must be silent.

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.

What a high-minded thing revolution had seemed when it started; but now I wondered if, in trying to bring about liberty, we’d instead opened the gates of endless war, bloodshed, and immorality.

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?