Empress Wu

Empress Wu may mean or refer to:

  • Empress Wu (Zhaolie) (died 245), the wife of Liu Bei, the first emperor of Shu Han
  • Empress Wu of Zhou (624–705), Wu Zetian, the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Empress Regnant
  • Consort Wu (Xuanzong) (died 737), Wu Zetian's grandniece, who was posthumously honored as an empress
  • Empress Wu (Gaozong of Song) (1115–1197), Chinese Empress consort of the Song Dynasty
  • Empress Wu (Chenghua) (died 1509), Chinese Empress consort of the Ming Dynasty
  • Empress Wu (1984 TV series), a Hong Kong TV series

Famous quotes containing the word empress:

    “We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside our skin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes—and knows it.”
    —Frank Pittman (20th century)