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Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
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And 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 my uncle's glare as if she were his equal.
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comes with me everywhere. I bend down and quietly put her out of the room. She whines and
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It felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition--the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress, and us to this savage battle.
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There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.
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Semmi sem betegit meg jobban egy orszagot, mint amikor sajat nepe tagjai harcolnak egymas ellen.
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king himself is as sunny as the mornings. He declares that he is well again, much better,
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ordered
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You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
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A steady love, a faithful love, a wife's love is the best.
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His little gestures of affection, his hand in the small of her aching back, her head brushing his shoulder. When she was with child, she used to cling to him for comfort, and he was always tender with her.
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He could not have got through the Sierra Nevada if she had not been sending him men and digging teams to level the road for him. No one else could have driven a road through there. He would have trusted no one else to support him, to hold the kingdom together as he pushed forwards. She could have conquered the mountains for no one else; he was the only one that could have attracted her support. What looked like a remarkable unity of two cal..
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Nowhere in the Bible does it say that marriage is a sacrament," Anne replies. "It was not God who joined us together. The priest says it was; but this is not true. This is the word of the church, not the Bible. Our wedding, like every wedding, was an act of man, not of God. It was not a holy sacrament."
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of the palace to inform me that Lady Margaret
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window, with Rig trotting
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Father William has sent the Host in the Monstrance from the chapel and they put it on my prie dieu so I can fix my eyes on the body of the Lord. I have to say I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is.
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Svaki dan se budim i znam da cu je vidjeti, a ipak joj nista ne mogu sapnuti na uho niti joj dodirnuti ruku. Ne mogu je privoljeti da preskoci svoje sastanke, ne mogu je ukrasti iz drustva drugih. Svaki je dan pozdravljam kao stranac i vidim bol u njezinim ocima. Svaki dan je povrijedim svojom hladnocom, a ona mene unistava svojom.
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too weak
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we stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: "This is heaven."
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When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner from the palace, and nothing more. We wanted nothing more.
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I've just written out the death certificate,' the doctor said cheerfully. 'Natural causes of course. She was eighty-eight. I think it was the Beaujolais Nouveau, I warned her not to drink it after Christmas but she was always stubborn. I'll send the undertakers around later. But they won't be able to fit her for at least a couple of days. She'll be all right there as long as it doesn't get too hot.
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God speaks to us individually, each and every one of us, that we need neither pope nor priest, nor bleeding statue, to find our way to faith. God is calling and we only have to listen. There are no clever tricks to forgiveness. There is only one way and there is only one Bible, and a woman can study it as well as a man.
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I am happy; I am in his arms, my face crushed against his padded jacket, his arms around me as tight as a bear, so that I cannot breathe. When I look up into his beloved weary face, he kisses me so hard that I close my eyes and think myself a besotted girl again. I catch a breath, and he kisses me some more.
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This is the greatest
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They are girls to whom things happen, and they take it hard. But I bear myself as more than a silly girl. I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.
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the wedding should be between him, his bride, and God.
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I have not slept for nights. I have not eaten for days. I am a soul in torment. Tell me if you think that she loves me, if you think that she might love me. Tell me, for pity's sake.
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them till the very last moment, and then what did I do but protect the family from
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the smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together.
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To let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. Sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. And sometimes you have to find courage to know that it was your folly or your wrongdoing which lost it; before you make a spell to bring it back, you have to change yourself. That's one of the deepest t..
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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 bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. You can wait out this reign and see what comes next. See what the future holds for the Princess Elizabeth, defend our son Henry against those who will want to set him up as the king's heir or ev..
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I listen with the air of an eager disciple as he propounds things that I have thought ever since I began my studies. Now he is glancing into books that I have read and hidden for my own safety, and he tells me the things that strike him as if they are a great novelty and I should learn them from him. Little Lady Jane Grey knows these opinions, Princess Elizabeth has read them; I taught them both myself. But now I sit beside the king and exc..
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saddle, brushes down my gown, hands me my hat,
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If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer," she says. "For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer. You are not an anchorite, a solitary saint, you are a preacher."
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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 out of herself. A woman might blossom into being a wife, not be trimmed down to fit.
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If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.
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I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong--for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
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This time, the pikemen spread out, as usual, see the charge start to gather speed towards them, and obeying a loud yell from their officers, run back and form into a square--ten men by ten men on the outside, ten men by ten men inside them, another forty crammed inside them, barely room to move, let alone fight. The front rank drop to their knees, grounding the shaft of their pikes before them, pointing upwards and outwards. The middle rank..
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It is the old smile of gritty courage that all women show who have gone through hard nights and come out without betrayal.
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You must use what you have,' he says, the advice of a good man to a whore for time immemorial. 'You must use what you are allowed.
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I don't want to help, I want to hinder. I adore your hair, I like to see it loose.
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What he does not know is that his greatest friend of all, the man he loves as a brother, has become indeed like a brother: as false to him as any envious rivalrous brother of York.
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He has such kind eyes." "Certainly he has eyes, but they do not have the power of emotion, only of sight."
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