Denise

“Conversely, bold arrogance is not the same as bravery.”
― Kris Spisak, Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods

“For Mary, living in an environment of surveillance and suspicion, with visitors monitored and conversations reported on, and where her correspondence was intercepted and read, verbal and written forms of communication had to be guarded, even when encoded. Such writings, therefore, cannot be assumed to be a true reflection of her thoughts and opinions. Mary’s needlework, however, was uncensored. She”
― Clare Hunter, Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

“It occurred to her, sadly, and not for the first time, that as you grew older you became busier, and time went faster and faster, the months pushing each other rudely out of the way, and the years slipping off the calendar and into the past.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, September

“In the sixteenth century, the needle held a number of symbolic meanings. It was thought to be synonymous with breath, the rhythm it produced being analogous to that of breathing. It also signified an arrow piercing a target or a gateway through which one could pass between the underworld, the temporal universe and the celestial heavens.”
― Clare Hunter, Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power