Learn you to die! means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful.
I’m a lady. It’s none of it mine. Look at you. You’re doing well enough—is your wife a rich woman? He chuckled sheepishly at that. She’s my wife. She does as well as I do. But she doesn’t own anything...
It’s not a question of wanting to be queen; it’s not even a question of wanting honorable love anymore. I am mad for him, I am madly in love with him. I would go to him if I had to walk barefoot. Tell...
It might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit o...
It is the old smile of gritty courage that all women show who have gone through hard nights and come out without betrayal.
In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.
If you mean Charles Stuart,' Frances's voice rang out clearly in the hall, 'then calling him he of whom you were speaking is hardly a brilliant disguise. And if is your idea of deep concealment then...
If women could only have more, I said longingly. If we could have more in our own right. Being a woman at court is like forever watching a pastrycook at work in the kitchen. All those good things, and...
If it means something to you,then take it to heart. If it means nothing, it means nothing, let it go.
I would carry myself with much more dignity than her. I wouldn't whisper with the king and demean myself as she did. I wouldn't send out dishes and wave to people like she did. I wouldn't trail all my...
I won't forgive this wrong done to me and my house, whoever it was that killed my boys, I shall put a curse on their house that they will have no first born son to inherit. Whoever took my son will lo...
I was near to delighted laughter because Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy...
I think it is unkind of me to stand there with my hands by my sides and a frown on my face. But I let him go without a blown kiss, without a blessing, without a command to come back safely. I let him...
I remembered riding in the barge with Queen Katherine and how everyone had pulled off their hats as we went by and the women curtsied, and the children kissed their hands and waved. There had been a t...
I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.
I pray for her soul with genuine feeling. She was a terribly unlucky girl. Her father Warwick adored her and thought he would make her a duchess, and then thought he could make her husband a king. But...
I looked over to Anne. She was untying her mask and watching me with a long calculating look, the Boleyn look, the Howard look that says: what has happened here, and how may I turn it to my advantage?...
I knew that I was smiling her smile, that she was a dark mirror to me.
I feel worse than I have ever done before, because now I know that it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace, and a country at war is a bitter place to live, a risky pl...
I feel very strongly that history has mostly been written by men, and even when it is not prejudiced against women it is dominated by a male perspective and male morality. Some of my heroines have bee...