Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth i and/or elizabeth:
“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“I consider women a great deal superior to men. Men are physically strong, but women are morally better.... It is woman who keeps the world in balance.”
—Mrs. Chalkstone, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2, ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882)