“I am my world.”
“I am taking first place in my world. I am sitting on the throne.”
“You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.”
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.”
“My lady, it is the lady empress Sextilia Augusta, mother to—’ ‘She knows to whom I am mother. The entire world knows to whom I am mother. The entire world shares my shame.’ The empress’s voice was sharp”