Lady In Waiting

🇯🇵Murasaki Shikibu

Literature

973–1014

"One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome."

🇯🇵Sei Shōnagon

Literature

966–1025

"A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything."

Anne Boleyn

Politics

1507–1536

"I heard the executioner was very good. And I have a little old creaky neck."