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I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile.

What a test of love it is, when the beloved is less than perfect.

can be made? Since we have made an

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

... if I cannot be with my sister, then I don't want any bedfellow at all.

Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do.

Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.

I don't want to help, I want to hinder. I adore your hair, I like to see it loose.

Look, you can't fight everyone ... You have to choose where you belong and rest there.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

Remember, she needs you now. Don't sell your services too cheap.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

I like writing historical fiction.

I have learned the power of surviving.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

Because she is my sister, and therefore one-half of me.

Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press, 1973.

He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life.

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

Do you not think that God will protect us?"
"No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

Heart of England; it cannot be attacked without hurting us all. The king listened to him, listened to every word, and at the end of it he said that

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.

God does not make the way smooth for those He loves. He sends hardships to try them. Those that God loves the best are those who suffer the worst.

They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.

We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.

I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life.

her beauty completely erased by jealousy.

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.

In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave.

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

The queen is right. The queen is always right.

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

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.

In Spain, indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

Life is long, and if a woman survives, she can take her pleasures one way or another.

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

you are my joy. You are worth tens of thousands.

The law is what powerful men say it shall be.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

How can I bless you when you are cursed in your choice?

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise ... guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for
and not before.

Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not.

I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.

What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

I try to go to the gym three times a week, and I swim, too.

But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?

Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.

The smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together.

We are Plantagenets - we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.

It's as if our name is both our greatest pride and our curse," I say.

There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.

Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him.

I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.

I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.

People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.

supposed to live a

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. It destroys families; it is killing us daily.

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.

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?

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

This child could not command a pet dove.
Harsh but true, lol!