Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and the best it can do is die.

Learning how to thread your eyebrows.

Learning how to do your own gel nails.

Learning how to do your own acrylics.

Learning how to wax your body hair.

Learning how to do a full sew in with closure.

Learning how to install your own braids.

Learning how to install a closure wig.

Learning how to exfoliate your own skin.

Learning how to improve your posture.

Learning how to microneedle your skin.

Learning how to build a capsule closet.

Learning how to dress snazzily.

Learning how to walk in high heels.

Learning how to choose a perfume. 

Learning to improve and work on your femininity.

Learn about interracial dating. 

Learning how to improve the way you speak. 

Learning another language.

Learning about real estate. 

Learning about investing.

Learning how to get a job as a flight attendant.

Learning how to improve your cursive writing.

Learning how to improve your handwriting.

Learning a new makeup style.

Learning a natural makeup look.

Learning how to curl your hair.

Learning how to straighten your hair.

Learning how to do a Dominican blowout.

Learning how to apply false eyelashes.

Learning how to apply self tanner.

Learning basic sewing.

Learning how to begin Iyengar Yoga.

Learning how to treadmill productively.

Learning to have toned ballet legs.

Learning how to work towards a toned body.

Learning how to understand ballet.

Learning how to understand operatic film.

Learning how to follow a simple ballet.

Learning daily etiquette.

Learning dining etiquette.

Learning how to walk elegantly.

Learning how to emulate Miss Universe. 

Learning about plastic surgery.

Learning how to bartend.

Learning how to open a bottle of champagne.

Learning how to make a cucumber sandwich.

Learning how to make a fresh mimosa.

Learning how to serve tea.

Learning how to tight line your eyes.

Learning how to microblade (NOT AT HOME).

Learning how to choose a designer handbag. 

Learning how to choose designer jewelry.

Learning how to rush a sorority.

Learning about equestrianism.

Learning the basics of skiing. 

Learning how to sail a sailboat.

Learning how to golf.

Learning how to play tennis.

XOXO,

Renata.

A woman that follows traditional gender roles to serve and honor God, her husband, and her family

She is kind, graceful, unafraid of embracing her womanhood, and unequivocally feminine She submits to her husband with the love, care, and respect that raises kings She understands the importance of her role as a wife, mother, lover, and homemaker and raises her children with the knowledge that strong families build strong nations

She is a woman clothed in strength and dignity, not a doormat, a toy, or a plaything

At the beginning of Season 1, Sansa wears her hair in what we can assume is a traditional northern style, much like her Aunt Lyanna did as a child.

But when Sansa goes south, she embraces southern fashion pretty quickly. Septa Mordane comments on how she begins to style her hair like a real southern lady. Sansa’s main role model is Cersei, who she desperately wants to emulate and impress. Cersei is everything Sansa wants to be: beautiful, poised, ladylike, and queen.

But of course, that relationship goes sour after Ned’s death, when Sansa realizes none of these people are the fairytale royalty she was expecting. She maintains her southern styles, but now it’s a way to blend in and appear nonthreatening.

When Sansa meets Margaery, things change. Margaery is kind and considerate towards Sansa in a way few people have been. She’s also pretty, confident, and socially very adept. Sansa quickly adopts Margaery’s style at the same time her dreams of happily ever after are revived in the form of her unofficial betrothal to Loras. Sansa wants to be the kind of empowered lady of the court that Margaery so clearly is.

Even when the betrothal to Loras falls through, Sansa still looks on Margaery as a sort of older sister figure, and wants to be like her.

Sansa undergoes her biggest transformation when she returns to the north. She is briefly forced to take on a new identity in the form of Alayne Stone, but quickly resumes her role as Sansa Stark, particularly when she returns to Winterfell. At this point, her mother becomes her role model. Sansa has essentially taken on Catelyn’s place as Lady of Winterfell. Catelyn was poised, authoritative, and brave. Doubtless Sansa wants some of that bravery, as well as the comfort of family, as she subjects herself to Ramsay.

Sansa continues to emulate her mother as she finds the strength to run away and take her home back from her abusers, although now in a more practical, less fashionable way.

Once the Starks have retaken Winterfell, Sansa full steps into her role as Lady of Winterfell, but now she is a lady in wartime. Catelyn’s grace will serve her well, but she needs to be more than resourceful, she needs to be cunning. This is where Cersei’s influence returns.

So Margaery Tyrell has some of the most gorgeous dresses in the show, but it’s particularly interesting to watch how her sense of fashion evolves throughout her arc, particularly with regard to how she uses her sex appeal as a weapon. (Also, in examining her dresses more closely I’ve realized she has way more blue dresses than I thought; there are 3 or 4 that all look similar but are in fact distinct.)

When we first meet Margaery, she’s married to Renly. She wears a low-cut dress, but one that is otherwise very modest, with her arms and collarbones covered. However, we see her use her revealing clothing for the first time when she attempts to seduce Renly.

After Renly’s death, she puts on her one truly bizarre outfit. She has no need to sexualize herself; what she needs in such a time of uncertainty and regrouping is armor and protection, and this dress is indicative of that.

When we next see Margaery, she is being introduced to Joffrey as his potential bride. Here is where we begin to see her trademark look of a blue sleeveless dress with gold embellishments. 

Margaery’s wardrobe reflects her position and her choices. She dresses exclusively in blue and gold, which is common for Tyrells. This emphasizes her family, since it is the Tyrell alliance that makes a marriage between her and Joffrey so attractive to the Lannisters. She also plays up her sex appeal for Joffrey’s sake, to get him on her side. Her dresses are low-cut with wide necklines that show off her chest, and she wears cap sleeves when most other Westerosi women wear their arms covered. Her dresses also frequently have cutouts in the waist of back, making them even more revealing.

After Joffrey’s death, Margaery has a careful line to walk. Once again she has lost the husband who is the source of her power, but this time her path forward is clearer than it was with Renly. Her strategy with Tommen is similar to that with Joffrey, although with much less manipulation and more taking advantage of Tommen’s innocence. The sex appeal is still very important if she’s to increase the young king’s awe of her. Though she dons black in mourning for Joffrey and later Tywin, the cut of her dresses remains largely the same.

The only time we see her more covered is in during official proceedings the throne room, for Tommen’s coronation and Tyrion’s trial. She adds a shawl, increasing her modesty in environments where she is not the focus, and where it is not useful to her to emphasize her own sexuality.

We see another shift when Margaery marries Tommen. Suddenly, her position is much more secure. Her wardrobe doesn’t change drastically, but it does shift in very telling ways. First, she abandons blue for gold. She no longer needs to look especially Tyrellish, and instead leans into her new status as queen. Second, while she doesn’t abandon her typical style, we do see her more covered for the first time. Margaery no longer needs to be a sex goddess to win Tommen; she’s done that. Now she needs to look regal and poised. Her long-sleeved gold dress is not dissimilar to many of the dresses Cersei wears, although more within Margaery’s own style.

The most dramatic change we see in Margaery’s wardrobe comes after she is arrested by the Faith Militant. She reenters society apparently devoted to the gods, and repentant for her earlier lifestyle. One of the things she discusses specifically with the High Sparrow is her use of sex as a weapon. Her clothing emphasizes her modesty. She still looks regal and poised, but she is completely covered, neck to wrists to toes.

A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES

❛ We need hope, or else we cannot endure. ❜

❛ Don’t feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy. ❜

❛ Pity those who don’t feel anything at all. ❜

❛ You look … better than before. ❜

❛ Was that a compliment? ❜

❛ We need hope, or else we cannot endure. ❜

❛ Well, good-bye for now. ❜

❛ Do you ever stop being so serious and dull? ❜

❛ Do you ever stop being such a prick? ❜

❛ I would have been gentle with you, though.. ❜

❛ When you healed my arm…You didn’t need to bargain with me. ❜

❛ You could have demanded every single week of the year. ❜

❛ It wasn’t entirely a question, but I needed the answer. ❜

❛ You can leave if you’re just going to insult me. ❜

❛ I could imagine very easily how much I would hate him. ❜

❛ That damned bitch is running me ragged. ❜

❛ I didn’t want you to fight alone. Or die alone.. ❜

❛ I didn’t want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. ❜

❛ So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn. ❜

❛ I’d long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it. ❜

❛ I doubt you’ll be saying that when I take you to the Night Court. ❜

❛ You didn’t tell me this would happen. ❜

❛ You didn’t ask. So how am I to blame? ❜

❛ I’d want someone to hold my hand until the end. ❜

A COURT OF MIST AND FURY

❛ To the people who look at the stars and wish. ❜

❛ To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered. ❜

❛ I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us. ❜

❛ I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. ❜

❛ I was a survivor, and I was strong. ❜

❛ I would not, could not be broken. Tamed. ❜

❛ There are good days and hard days for me—even now. ❜

❛ Don’t let the hard days win. ❜

❛ My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant. ❜

❛ No one was my master— but I might be master of everything. ❜

❛ There are different kinds of darkness. ❜

❛ It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. ❜

❛ There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes. ❜

❛ I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. ❜

❛ I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. ❜

❛ My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds. ❜

❛ I realized—I realized how badly I’d been treated before. ❜

❛ I rarely went outside at night—usually, I was so tired from hunting. ❜

❛ I didn’t particularly care for them, anyway. ❜

❛ I wonder if I was looking for this place—looking for you all. ❜

❛ I knew you could take care of yourself. ❜

❛ I would have torn apart the world to get you back.. ❜

❛ I’m thinking that I want you so badly I can’t concentrate. ❜

❛ Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. ❜

A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN

❛ Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you. ❜

❛ It’s a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it. ❜

❛ Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged. ❜

❛ I believe everything happens for a reason. ❜

❛ My own power would have consumed me long ago. ❜

❛ I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to…  ❜

❛ Night Triumphant- and the Stars Eternal. ❜

❛ What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. ❜

❛ I will find you in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. ❜

❛ You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. ❜

❛ When you erupt, girl, make sure it is felt across worlds. ❜

❛ We’re all a broken, in our own ways - In places no one might see. ❜

❛ A thousand years. ❜

❛ One life may change the world. ❜

❛ Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty. ❜

❛ My goal was bigger than revenge. ❜

❛ My purpose greater than personal retribution. ❜

❛ Words had become as foreign and hard to reach as the stars.. ❜

❛ We don’t have the luxury of good ideas—only picking between the bad ones. ❜

❛ I didn’t know how long my sisters and I lay there together. ❜

❛ Because I can’t stay away. ❜

❛ Leave this world… a better place than how you found it. ❜

❛ I hadn’t realized I was a villain in your narrative. ❜