What is an Empress Theodora quote?

Answer 1

Theodora advised Justinian not to flee for his life but to stand and fight. "For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile."

Another quote was, "It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women."

Answer 2

I suddenly realised I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.