Your tail, is becoming
Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag. Empress Dowager Cixi
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Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag. Empress Dowager Cixi
Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime. Empress Dowager Cixi
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother. Emilio G. Segre
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I’d have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash…in fact, they’d assign someone else to knit my … Read more
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more! Fyodor Dostoevsky
We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people … Read more
I’m not interested in being a wife. I’m interested in being an empress. Fran Lebowitz
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. Catherine the Great
I’m an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn’t break the way it warned. Even crazy, I’m as nice as a chocolate bar. Anne Sexton
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it’s in all the textbooks. Anchee Min