She did not want him to know that she was not his beloved little sister any more but a woman who had learned to throw everything, even her mortal soul, into the battle to become queen.
Semmi sem betegít meg jobban egy országot, mint amikor saját népe tagjai harcolnak egymás ellen.
Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.
Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
Nothing would be the same for any woman in this country again. From this time onward no wife, however obedient, however loving, would be safe. For everyone would know that if a wife such as Queen Kath...
Look, you can't fight everyone... You have to choose where you belong and rest there.
Like many women, she was unable to fit exactly with her husband’s view. Her feet hurt: she could not walk in the path of her husband’s choosing. She tried to dance to please him, but she could not den...
Life is long, and if a woman survives, she can take her pleasures one way or another.
Jane had gone to pray for the dead queen, Anne would dance on her grave. The
It’s a fool who is afraid of nothing, I say. And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.
It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.
It was a dance like no other, a dance of seduction. Henry did not take his blue eyes off my face, he danced toward me, stamped his foot and clapped his hands as if he would strip me naked then and the...
Is that it? he demanded, in sudden rage. Is that all that matters? Not that I am in love and tumbled like a fool into sin. Not that I can never be happy, married to a snake and in love with a heartbre...
If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.
I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I wa...
I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.
I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I...
I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of co...
I find I must prepare for my death. I don't fear it. Ever since I lost my son I have been weary to my soul, and I think, when it finally comes, it will be a lying down to sleep without fear of dreams,...
Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it.