favourite Game of Thrones ships | Ned x Cat
And after the war, at Winterfell, I had love enough for any woman, once I found the good sweet heart beneath Ned’s solemn face.
ladies from books » catelyn stark, a song of ice and fire by george r. r. martin
“I would gladly butcher every horse in Winterfell with my own hands if it would open Bran’s eyes, do you understand that? Do you?”
(Source: clara-oswalded)
[One of the strongest female characters is Catelyn Stark, in my point of view.] Well, I wanted to make a strong mother character. The portrayal women in epic fantasy have been problematical for a long time. These books are largely written by men but women also read them in great, great numbers. And the women in fantasy tend to be very atypical women… They tend to be the woman warrior or the spunky princess who wouldn’t accept what her father lays down, and I have those archetypes in my books as well. However, with Catelyn there is something reset for the Eleanor of Aquitaine, the figure of the woman who accepted her role and functions with a narrow society and, nonetheless, achieves considerable influence and power and authority despite accepting the risks and limitations of this society. She is also a mother… Then, a tendency you can see in a lot of other fantasies is to kill the mother or to get her off the stage. She’s usually dead before the story opens… Nobody wants to hear about King Arthur’s mother and what she thought or what she was doing, so they get her off the stage and I wanted it too. And that’s Catelyn.
If someone could pass this onto the HBO production team…
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
NOT JUNE CLEAVER
BUT ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
Stick that in your pipe and SUCK ON IT BENIOFF AND WEISS.
(Source: lesbiansofficial)
Seventeen years ago, you rode off with Robert Baratheon. You came back a year later with another woman’s son.
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I am become a sour woman, Catelyn thought. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
