“… counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.”
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“If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.”
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Jair Bolsonaro
(1955) Brazilian president elect
In an interview with Zero Hora newspaper https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/politica/noticia/2014/12/bolsonaro-diz-que-nao-teme-processos-e-faz-nova-ofensa-nao-merece-ser-estuprada-porque-e-muito-feia-cjkf8rj3x00cc01pi3kz6nu2e.html on 10 December 2014, about federal deputy Maria do Rosário. Brazil presidential candidate Bolsonaro's most controversial quotes https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-presidential-candidate-bolsonaros-most-controversial-quotes-012652084.html. Yahoo!, 29 September 2018.
Florence Becker Lennon, The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962); page 27.
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Billy Joel
(1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
She's Got a Way.
Song lyrics, Cold Spring Harbor (1971)
Charlotte Brontë
(1816–1855) English novelist and poet
Letter to Emily Brontë, (1 December 1843) The life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) by Elizabeth Gaskell.
“Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”.”
Margaret Thatcher
(1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for ITN (5 April 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104913 regarding the Falkland Islands
First term as Prime Minister
Context: I am not talking about failure, I am talking about my supreme confidence in the British fleet... superlative ships, excellent equipment, the most highly trained professional group of men, the most honourable and brave members of Her Majesty's Service. Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”. That is the way we must look at it, with all our professionalism, all our flair and every single bit of native cunning, every single bit of professionalism and all our equipment and we must go out calmly, quietly, to succeed.
