Marta Araújo

“Fundamentally, this was a deal he was offering the leading nobility. It was mainly stuff about not charging exorbitant fees when a son inherited his father’s lands, and not forcing rich widows to remarry. The sort of thing the barons got stressed about.”
― David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

“Mothers provide, she often said. I’m the provider . She made a fist and thumped her chest to show her strength. She filled such basic needs for us just by being alive. She was the general. She was the one who strategized our futures and led us to win wars. With her, we were safe.”
― Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

“A natureza intercontinental da monarquia gerava um dilema e impunha, como remédio, a ambiguidade. Em Lisboa, o Governo sujeitou-se ao «plano continental» do imperador, para evitar uma invasão francesa na Europa, ao mesmo tempo que procurava, secretamente, a compreensão da Inglaterra, a fim de prevenir algum ataque inglês ao Brasil. Conseguiu assim irritar ambas as potências. No Outono de 1807, os ingleses enviaram a Lisboa uma esquadra, e os franceses, através de Espanha, sua aliada, um exército.”
― Rui Ramos, História de Portugal

“Our notions of meritocracy and equality of opportunity would have sounded incomprehensible to medieval ears and not just because there was nothing they could do about the build-up of wax.”
― David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens