Jemima

“My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthy bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.”
― Alfred Tennyson, Maud

“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds..." Chap. 1, p. 12”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, Medea