The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.