Princesses Behaving Badly Quotes

“In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort of long-sleeved vest that is open in the front to prove tp their opponents they don't have breasts. It's a tribute to the woman wrestler who was never defeated.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“Genghis Khan considered his daughters superior leaders compared to his sons, and he awarded them kingdoms that they defended tooth and nail (oftentimes against their male siblings).”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“Nothing is spared me in this life,” he remarked wryly, “now a woman has to go mad in the Vatican.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“I defied them, as I have all my life defied everyone.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“The duke married her anyway, but life with this millionairess didn’t prove any better than with the last one. Gladys once brought a revolver to dinner and, when asked why, remarked, “Oh, I don’t know, I might just shoot Marlborough.” Hubby had her committed,”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“t could have been a storybook romance, if the authors were the brothers Grimm, or maybe Stephen King.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“Poor woman, I shall support her as long as I can because she is a woman and because I hate her husband.” L”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“Sarah (Winnemucca) is best known for her 1883 autobiography, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Theirs Claims, the first memoir writen and published by a Native American woman. Her story begins; 'I was born somewhere near 1844, but am not sure of the precise time. I was a very small child when the first white people came to our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued to do so ever since, and I have never forgotten their first coming.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“(He) may have won a battle, but he was about to lose the war.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“polite princess—a polite anyone, really—knows not to stick her finger in the pope’s hot chocolate. But”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“The two were wed in August 1561, during a weeklong bacchanal that included a jousting tournament and a public bedding (a charming custom in which bride and groom were conveyed to their chamber by jovial wedding guests, dumped into bed amid much ribald joking, and left to consummate the marriage while folks sniggered outside the door).”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“But after the boozy excess of the ’80s came the swift and devastating hangover of the ’90s.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“she had so often told herself the fairy tale of her own greatness that it blinded her to her faults.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“Sofka grew up in St. Petersburg as many other noble children did then, with a grim British governess, tons of toys, playdates with the hemophiliac tsarevich, and no contact with common children.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“And for all he begrudged Sophia Dorothea her murky birth, George got an early start on making his own pack of illegitimate children, knocking up one of his sibling’s governesses when he was just 16 years old. His mother warned him “not to have his name bawled from the housetops as the progenitor of bastards.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“She’d always had a taste for luxury (this was the woman who had brought her servants and a bathtub to the front lines while serving as a nurse in World War I),”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“was the first sultan to marry a concubine in three centuries; moreover, Roxolana was the first slave concubine in the history of the Ottoman Empire to be freed and made a legal wife.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“On November 12, 1312, the 17-year-old queen gave birth to a healthy baby boy. She’d done her duty to crown and husband, and her position was secure. She had also accumulated enough political acumen to manage her useless husband and try to keep the nation from civil war. Edward”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“hen Roman princess Justa Grata Honoria found herself about to be packed off to some backwater to be the docile wife of a yes-man in service to her brother, Emperor Valentinian III, she sat down to write a letter. To Attila the Hun.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings