My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.
Margaret...you must know that you could never change your own life. You are a girl: girls have no choice. You could never even choose your own husband: you are of the royal family. A husband would alw...
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.
It is for your daughter, she said. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine. There
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 woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy exp...
I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because he is motherless, but because I am childless and I want someone to love.
I think nobody in the whole world knows what it is to be in love, to be so beloved.
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,...
I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real struggles and genuine victories. And so I hope very much that you will find this...
I cannot know what the future will bring us, he says in a rapid undertone. I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling yo...
I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.
How can I bless you when you are cursed in your choice?
He must desire the scent of the smoke of their sacrifice.