If Maud’s suffragist mother, Matilda, had taught her anything, it was that if you wanted something, you needed to ask for it – or demand it, if necessary.

Too much control can stunt a girl, sap her of courage, and render her weak.

Magic isn’t things materializing out of nowhere, Magic is when a lot of people all believe in the same thing at the same time, and somehow we all escape ourselves a little bit and we meet up somewhere, and just for a moment, we taste the sublime.

With all of these oohs and ahs, I think we must christen it the Land of Aahs.

Great dressage demands more than skill; it engages a rider’s inner wisdom and his ability to communicate with a mount in the silent language of horsemanship.

Oh, Kansas isn’t the state of Kansas,” Maud said. “Kansas is just the place you’re stuck in, wherever that might be.

He had no heart. And, you know, a man who gives up his heart is little better than a tin can... and all the Baum’s Castorine in the world couldn’t make him better. That’s why he was so determined to find one. Sometimes, when the tin woodman leaves home, when he goes on the road, leaving his family to sell his chopped wood, he feels so hollow he bangs on his chest, just to hear the echo inside. That’s what it’s like to be a man of tin. It’s very lonely.

Just as ballroom dancing and pair skating command partners to work together seamlessly, in the sport of dressage, the rider performers an intricate pas de deux with his partner – a twelve-hundred-pound four-footed beast.

The fight for all women has got to begin with the women closest to you.

Just because you can see a rainbow doesn’t mean you know how to get to the other side.