"“Her mind has no womanly weakness,her perseverance is equal to that of a man, and her memory long keeps what it quickly picks up...I do assure you, there is no prince that loveth his subjects better, or whose love can countervail our love. There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel; I mean, your love: for I do more esteem of it, than of any treasure or riches. Elizabeth preserved stability in a nation rent by political and religious dissension and maintained the authority of the Crown against the growing pressures of Parliament.The Queen found that she could control Parliament through the agency of her privy councilors and the force of her own personality. It was, however, some time before she could control the Church and the countryside as effectively. She would tell her subjects"I am come amongst you … resolved in the midst and heat of battle, to live and die amongst you all…. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king and of a King of England too."
-Ascham
-Ascham
Although men saw themselves as rational beings and they saw women as creatures likely to be dominated by impulse and passion whom temperamentally, intellectually, and morally unfit to govern. Elizabeth chose to rule independently due to her father's multiple relations,she wanted to focus solely on her people rather than relationships.The queen’s gender was no threat to the stability and glory of the nation.