Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, “A Door Into Ocean” - Chapter 4 (p. 71)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
Source: Mason & Dixon (1997), Ch. 35
Context: Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power, — who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, “A Door Into Ocean” - Chapter 4 (p. 71)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.”
Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“Every curiosity is in need of the curiosity of speech.”
Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 335.
General Quotes
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Source: Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet
p 12
Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004
Mary I of England (1516–1558) Queen of England and Ireland
Proclamation concerning Religion (1553-08-18).
“She can find in her bewilderment no words wherewith to begin, how to order or where to end her speech; fain would she pour out all in her first utterance, but not even the first words doth fear-stricken shame allow her.”
Nec quibus incipiat demens videt ordine nec quo
quove tenus, prima cupiens effundere voce
omnia, sed nec prima pudor dat verba timenti.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 433–435
“She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: The Lost Duke of Wyndham
Sania Mirza (1986) Indian tennis player
K Chandrasekhara Rao in: "Sania appointed Telangana’s Industrial Brand Ambassador"