top five historical lady badasses: eleanor, duchess of aquitaine, queen of france and england (france and england, 1122?-1204AD)
“”Sprung of a house which represented to the full the licentious temper of the South, she scornfully rejected a husband indifferent to love, and ineffective in war as in politics. She had ‘married a monk and not a king,’ she said… In the square-shouldered ruddy youth who came to receive his fiefs, with his “countenance of fire”, she saw a man destined by fate and by character to be in truth a king.” (J. R. Green)
