... I love an empowered woman!

[ankarastark]

Marc Antony: Three days I've waited for an audience with you.
Cleopatra: What is the purpose?
Marc Antony: Get out, all of you.
Cleopatra: You're before the throne of Egypt.
Marc Antony: I know!
Cleopatra: State your purpose!
Marc Antony: Matters I won't discuss publicly.
Cleopatra: I do not grant private audiences to unidentified persons.
Marc Antony: I am Marcus Antonius.
Cleopatra: I know who you are. What are you, at the moment?
Marc Antony: Envoy of Rome, proconsul of all the Roman Empire to the east of Italy.
Cleopatra: An impressive title.
Marc Antony: Worthy, perhaps, of a private audience?
Cleopatra: Without a treaty of alliance with Egypt...you could not hold the territories under your command. True?
Marc Antony: Possibly.
Cleopatra: Then, Lord Antony, you come before me as a suppliant.
Marc Antony: If you choose to regard me as such.
Cleopatra: I do. You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. You will kneel.
Marc Antony: I will what?!
Cleopatra: On your knees.
Marc Antony: You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire--
Cleopatra: I asked it of Julius Caesar. I demand it of you!

... I love that. >:)