If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do even without formal p...
I have a longing for you, Lady Elizabeth Grey, that I have never felt for any woman before. Will you come to me? I ask it not as a king, and not even as a soldier who might die in battle, but as a sim...
I cannot be your mistress, I say simply. I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family. I pause. I am anxious not to be too discouraging. Whatever I might wish in my...
Each hour burns slowly away, although time means nothing to him now. Time is quite lost to him in his eternal darkness, in his eternal timelessness, though it leans so heavily on me. All day long I wa...
And what about Edward, is he still alive?''I don't know... I pray God he is.''But you don't expect him anymore?''No... If Edward is alive then I pray God he will find his way to me. And there will alw...
Scowling with worry. Come at once, he’s
You’re a girl from the House of Lancaster. You cannot fall in love with the heir to the House of York unless he is king victorious, and there is some profit in love for you. These are hard days we are...
There are many sorts of love, she counsels me. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.
Some of us are born to a solitary life.
Si soy una mujer honorable, debo ser tan honorable como es honorable un hombre: sin importar lo que me ponga ni cómo me vea. Se trata del respeto que me tengo, no de la forma en la que el mundo me ve,...
She would not let it go. I had thought to be Queen of England and see my son on the throne, she repeated.
She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man’s world, J...
She knew that being a mortal woman is hard on the heart, hard on the feet.
She is defeated, and her husband is vanquished. But everyone knows that she will not accept her defeat, she will plot and scheme for her son, just as Edward told me that I must plot and scheme for our...
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourse...
I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong—for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anything else I was a woman who was capab...
I stood beside the queen’s chair and knew that any man looking from her to me would think that she was a fine woman, but old enough to be my mother, while I was a woman of only fourteen, a woman ready...
I look up into his face and catch a glimpse of an emotion I never expected to see. His hazel eyes are warm, his mouth is tender. He looks like a man in love.
I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life.
I had a small looking glass on the wall and I stood before it and gazed at my own reflection.