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QUEEN LATIFAH The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wi...
QUEEN VICTORIA He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very ...
QUEEN VICTORIA I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or...
QUEEN VICTORIA It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in th...
QUEEN VICTORIA Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of fort...
QUEEN VICTORIA These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and do...
QUEEN VICTORIA Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a publ...
ELLERY QUEEN We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the...
QUEEN VICTORIA I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a littl...
QUEEN VICTORIA Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wif...
QUEEN VICTORIA His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is ...
QUEEN VICTORIA I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little...
QUEEN VICTORIA Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the...
QUEEN VICTORIA Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, ...
QUEEN LATIFAH Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks ...
QUEEN LATIFAH I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out to...
QUEEN LATIFAH When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife ...
QUEEN VICTORIA Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
QUEEN LATIFAH I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfec...
QUEEN LATIFAH There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w...
QUEEN LATIFAH