Queen Gorgo quotes

View Quote Because only Spartan women give birth to real men. [Response to Persian messenger questioning why Spartan women are allowed to address him]

View Quote [To Leonidas] Instead ask yourself: "What should a free man do?"

View Quote Come back with your shield ... or on it. [Last words to her husband, Leonidas, before he and the 300 march off to the Hot Gates, reference to the Spartan saying "Εί τάν εί επί τάς" (Doric Greek: "Either it or on it") in reference to the shield]

View Quote Your lips can finish what your fingers have started. [Preceding the sex scene]

View Quote Councilmen, I stand before you not only as your queen. I come to you as a mother. I come to you as a wife. I come to you as a Spartan woman. I come to you with great humility. I am not here to represent Leonidas – his actions speak louder than my words ever could. I am here for all those voices which cannot be heard: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons – three hundred families that bleed for our rights, and for the very principles this room was built upon. We are at war, gentlemen. We must send the entire Spartan army to aid our king in the preservation of not just ourselves, but of our children. Send the army for the preservation of liberty. Send it for justice. Send it for law and order. Send it for reason. But most importantly, send our army for hope – hope that a king and his men have not been wasted to the pages of history – that their courage bonds us together, that we are made stronger by their actions, and that your choices today reflect their bravery.

View Quote This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I am not your Queen. [Seconds after she stabs Theron to death ]