Wilma Rudolph

You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.

American Athlete

Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

American Entertainer

Gilbert Baker

I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.

American Artist

Shangela

As a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' queen, I meet so many fans from so many walks of life.

Pepa

I've always said, if you treat yourself like a queen, you'll attract a king.

American Musician

Dolly Parton

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

American Singer

Lara Dutta

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

Indian Actress

Lamar Odom

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

Charisma Carpenter

Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.

American Actress

Katy Perry

The term queen often carries historical gravity, being related to royalty and legacy.

Historical Significance

A queen is highly respected in her realm, often symbolizing national pride.

Cultural Respect

A queen consort doesn't rule but may have influence in the kingdom.

Not a Ruler

Queen metaphorically signifies superiority or dominance in a field.

Metaphorical Use

In card games, 'queen' denotes a card, not a person's role or status.

Game Vocabulary

Understanding the queen's power on the chessboard is key to mastering the game.

Chess Strategy

In LGBT+ communities, 'queen' can describe a certain persona, not just royalty.

Specialized Slang

In entomology, 'queen' refers to the main reproductive female in insect societies.

Biological Role

 Notice that this man is not getting stung. He probably has a queen bee tied to his chin, and the other bees are attracted to it. So this really demonstrates our relationship with honeybees, and that goes deep back for thousands of years. We're very co-evolved, because we depend on bees

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 through touch, sound and chemical signals. These stimuli accomplish many things from serving as an alarm to other ants if one is killed, to signaling when a queen is nearing the end of her reproductive life. But one of the most impressive collective capabilities of an ant colony

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 also delighted to be able to report that the business community is getting involved we are now working with the B team on this issue they are a group of visionary global business leaders who the queen them have set up and runs

Exposing abuse of...

 Even a wing has some nutritional value. The rest of the workers take him into the nest. He has their support, at least for the time being. He's on probation. Until he actually mates with the queen, he could still be attacked.

Queen Ant Mating Season...

 The tunnel guards are in danger of being overrun. Deep in the bowels of the nest lives the termite queen. If she is killed, the entire colony will die out. She must be protected,

Defending the ant nest...

 resistance and break through into the Royal bunker the Corral Queen and her broods are trapped and completely helpless held by each leg the queen is on the rack

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 by covering his body with a pheromone that the queen bee uses to control her hive he has them at his command they react by protecting him with their bodies

The Man Who Can Control...

 in recognition of all you've done the people of the world hereby crown you queen also make sure the world only sees the aretha franklin you want them to

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 and for the moment at least this communal life is the key to her future each queen now lays her first batch of tiny eggs each no bigger than a pinhead

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 deep inside is the queen her role is to replenish the colony by laying two million eggs a month she is merely an egg-laying machine