It is hopeless, I cannot say it. I give a little whooping cough and raise my eyes to his face. I cannot help myself, I hate him like an enemy, I cannot stop myself dreaming of his enemy, I cannot say...
It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
It is the old smile of gritty courage that all women show who have gone through hard nights and come out without betrayal.
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 was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she met...
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’s still woman’s work whether it’s done in a great hall or in the kitchen, I said bitterly. I know it well enough. It’s earning no money for yourself and everything for your husband and master. It’s...
Keep him coming forward but never let him think that you come forward yourself. He wants to feel that he is pursuing you, not that you are entrapping him. When he gives you the choice of coming forwar...
Last time I danced in these rooms it was the Christmas feast and I was wearing a dress of silk as rich as Queen Anne’s own, made to the same pattern as the queen’s, as if to force a comparison between...
Learn you to die! means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful.
Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my f...
Makes no difference, he said, with his intuitive knowledge of my thoughts. No difference at all how your first marriage was. This is my marriage, and I want my wife in my bed. I laughed aloud and snug...
Militant might in women is named as unfeminine aggression; scholarship in women is diminished into a domestic art. Religious life is viewed as sexual chastity rather than spiritual awakening to an int...
No, I said. I don’t think I’ll ever have a fancy for a man. Hard luck on the man who loves you, Will offered neutrally. Very, I said. I shot a sideways look at him. A disaster for the man who loves me...
Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our own destiny in a world we could not understand.
She had no idea, no better than my kitten, as to how she would survive in this kingdom of her enemies. She must have thought that George was her savior. But not for long. Nobody knows quite what happe...
She smiles. You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle—I gasp but her smile is steady—if there is a battle, then either your husband will win, and your son will take the...
Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it.
There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.
There was I, fool that I am, thinking that you were being loving to me, he says shortly. I thought you were touching me tenderly. I thought that our marriage vows had moved your heart. I thought that...
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