Philippa Gregory Quotes

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Window, with Rig trotting

Your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.

Ah, my dear, you are a good wife. You are my beauty. You are my only love.

Anne's smile was as sweet as poison. 'What matter? So long as it is a Boleyn girl?''I didn't want you to come back to court to be my rival,' I said sulkily.'I was born to be your rival,' she said simp...

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

As my wife you cannot refuse me. I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband. From now, till your death, you will never be able to refuse me. There can be no rape between us, only my rights and y...

As soon as they are gone and the door closed behind them, we fall into a frenzy about my dress. Dark green, my mother says. It has to be dark green. It is our only safe color. Dark blue is the royal c...

But I warn you that a woman who seeks great power and wealth has to pay a great price, Perhaps you will be a great woman like Melusina, or Yolande, or like me; but you will be like all women; uneasy i...

But don’t run too fast, my sister warned. Remember he has to catch you.

But you will break Anne's heart.' 'Her heart has to break and her spirit has to break if she is to be any use to her family.' My mother said coldly

Celia had ordered his favourite meal of wild duck cooked in limes, and I advised that we eat without him and save his portion for him to dine later. ‘He

Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be examined by a man, and whose book would be published by a male publisher a...

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eye, which makes her the center of attention.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as her front door, for the rest of his life. If she chooses a wastrel she will be avoided by all her nei...

First you have to know the emptiness of your womb, of your arms, of your heart. That can hurt. You have to have the courage to look at yourself and know the loss that you feel. Then you have to change...

For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.

For a moment out eyes meet, but we exchange nothing except a grim determination to get this parting over, to get this exile under way, to keep this precious boy safe. I suppose that Jasper is the only...

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would alw...