Hatshepsut Quotes

“There is no slavery like the slavery of power,” he said. “You asked for power. You have power. You cannot have freedom too.”
― Moyra Caldecott, Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun

“the worst punishment possible for an Egyptian — the removal of his name from all records and the forbidding of his name to be spoken or written by anyone, ever. Even the gods would not recognise someone whose name had been expunged.”
― Moyra Caldecott, Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun

“But it was the custom. It was what was expected. It was part of the order the god had created.”
― Moyra Caldecott, Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun