Her Story Quotes

“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors...Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story, her-story……”
― Thomas Jerome Baker, Boudicca: Her Story

“It feels like a fairy tale from one of those happily-ever-after books where the princess storms the castle, slays a goblin-dragon, and takes over the kingdom for herself. Except I am not golden-haired or fine-boned. I have no bones at all.
I am a rag doll who married a skeleton king.
A rag doll who woke from the impossible daydream and found herself in her own heroine story--a tale whose ending hasn't yet been written; but instead, is only just the beginning.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen

“powerless and bold
in the darkness and cold,
she was the last thing
that she could control”
― Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace

“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered like a memory of him.”
― Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace