{"author":"Libbie Hawker","author_id":"Libbie+Hawker","total_quotes":9,"quotes":[{"text":"In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["heart","heartbeat","hope","hope-and-despair","libbie-hawker","thin-as-a-thread","zenobia"],"id":18142,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"Nafsha is so concerned with my virginity. I am beginning to think she would wed me herself. Alas, the only tool she might use to make me a woman is her tongue -- and it is far too sharp for me to allow it beneath my skirts.","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["arranged-marriage","indignation","libbie-hawker","marriage","nafsha","skirts","smackdown","tongue-in-cheek","zenobia"],"id":31372,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["difficulty","feminism","laugh","libbie-hawker","mastery","politics","skill","zenobia"],"id":73915,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"There is nothing humble about this woman.","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["anxiety","ity","feminism","humility","libbie-hawker","power","pride","zenobia"],"id":93723,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"She threw herself across her bed, weeping into a pillow. She knew just what she wanted -- the desire was a fierce ache inside her. But fiercer still was the knowledge that it was beyond the reach of a female.","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["ache","crying","feminism","libbie-hawker","pain","pillow","pride","quiet-suffering","zenobia"],"id":155158,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a mother, just a woman. They made me for power!","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["destiny","female","feminism","gods","libbie-hawker","mother","politics","power","uxorial-duty","woman","zenobia"],"id":223094,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["arrogance","confidence","feminism","independence","libbie-hawker","needlework","womans-work","zenobia"],"id":418654,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["anger","ity","fear","feminism","politics","possibility","power","uncertainty","zenobia"],"id":430024,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"},{"text":"Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that will mature in the coming years to the smoky tones of a priestess or a queen -- a woman of great natural power.","author":"Libbie Hawker","tags":["empress","femininity","feminism","natural-power","pitch","priestess","princess","queen","voice","zenobia"],"id":445730,"author_id":"Libbie+Hawker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}