Elizabeth I, Collected Works

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"If we still advise we shall never do."

Elizabeth I, Collected Works

"As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom."

Elizabeth I, Collected Works

"If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married."

Elizabeth I, Collected Works

"[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin."

Elizabeth I, Collected Works