Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

"For the whole world I became a heroine, very easy, but not complimentary, since I had done nothing in this case, received the most ridiculous letters from places all over the world; especially a steady flow of praises came from France! I have never seen such a exaggerated reaction"

"I have done more for the Boers than my fellow countrymen will ever know"

"only in the intimacy with mother I could be just a human"

"the government did not fulfil the urge in their hearts and felt that the public wished to see me openly revealing my sympathy for our kinsmen; how could I as the head of state!"

"Already then, there was in my subconsciousness as unsatisfactoriness about powerlessness, which was accompanied by being locked in a cage, whereby made taking an initiative, of any kind, impossible"

"to one of which I am attached by bonds of friendship, to other by ties of common origin"