Beatrice

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever. In the end, the fairest of them all wins.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories

“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved." "All”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice