You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.
Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is...
The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
Nu vreau să mă gândesc la faptul de a fi o femeie care nu poate trăi în noua lume pe care o construiesc bărbații. Nu vreau să mă gândesc cum s-a ridicat Melusina din fântâna ei arteziană și s-a închis...
The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so pers...
My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.
It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better...
A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to...
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for...
Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.
Mother, before God, I say, my voice shaking with tears, I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!
He is my brother, I said. I cannot desert him.You can go to your own death, William said. Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardiz...
I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I...
Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck.
Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me