Dinah Craik Quote

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.


The Woman's Kingdom: A Love Story (ed. 1868)


Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas,...

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas,...

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas,...

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas,...