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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 2014 |
| AUTHOR: | Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
| QUOTATION: | A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Queen sent word to a Throne: ‘Daughter am I in my mother’s house, But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open, As the gates are mine to close, And I set my house in order,’ Said our Lady of the Snows. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | RUDYARD KIPLING, “Our Lady of the Snows,” stanza 1, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: The Seven Seas, The Five Nations, The Years Between, vol. 26, p. 227 (1941, reprinted 1970). The poem is about the Canadian preferential tariff of 1897. |
| SUBJECTS: | Women |
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