“Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?”
“I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.”
“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”
“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.”
“I am stronger than my trials.”
“Magdalena pulls me away by the arm. “I am the stronger one of Titus and I,” she says over the marketplace din. “Woman are always the stronger sex.” She smiles to herself. “The trick is not appearing to be so.”