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He is a very cautious man, and he believes wholeheartedly in nothing.
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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 been considered simply unimportant--like Mary Boleyn or Katherine Howard--and some of them have been stereotyped--like Anne of Cleves and Katherine of Aragon. I don't start with a determination of putting the record straight, but when I read terri..
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think of his cupping my mother's cheek in his hand and telling her that she is the cleverest woman in England and he will be guided by none but her; and then going his own way.
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and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world - this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves.
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As I say--it's not the plague. It's this new illness. They call it the sweating sickness, a new plague that King
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pure beauty, shining among the other girls
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When you raise a child and he becomes a man, you start to think that he is safe,
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how it is that men, even thoughtful men, can sound as if they never consider anything but always simply know.
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We are two women who have recognised that we cannot control the world. We are players in this game but we do not choose our own moves. The men will play us for their own desires. All we can do is try to survive whatever happens next.
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I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. 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 fam..
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man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
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What was his coward's way out? when the doors of the church open, and I have to walk forwards and take the hand of my new husband, and stand before a priest and swear to be a wife. I feel his big hand take mine and I hear his deep voice answer the questions, where I just whisper. He pushes a heavy ring of Welsh gold on my finger, and I have to hold my fingers together like a little paw to keep it on. It is far too big for me. I look up at h..
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Gwyneth looks at me. "What does it say?" she asks. "Nothing," I say. The lie comes to my mouth so swiftly that it must have been put there by God to help me, and therefore it does not count as a lie at all."
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For a moment out eyes meet, but we exchange nothing except a grim determination to get this parting over, to get this exile under way, to keep this precious boy safe. I suppose that Jasper is the only man whom I have loved, perhaps he is the only man whom I will ever love. But there has never been time for words of love between us: we have spent most of our time saying good-bye.
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she taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. "It doesn't matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn't matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it."
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Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.
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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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she was a water goddess who came out of the river to marry the first duke, but she couldn't be a mortal woman. She comes back to cry for the loss of her children." "And when have you heard her?" "The night that my baby sister died. I heard something. And I knew at once that it was Melusina." "But how did you know it was her?" the other maid whispers, afraid of being excluded from the conversation. I shrug, and Joan smiles in recognition of ..
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She would have come to me if she could, she would have blessed this baby as she blessed all the others. I had a hard confinement without her here and I expect to miss her for the rest of my life. This baby came into the world just as my mother left it, and so I am naming her for my mother. And I can tell you this-I am absolutely sure that a Tudor Elizabeth is going to be one of the greatest monarchs that England has ever seen.
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Now I understand Isabel's slavish loyalty to George. Now I understand the passionate bond between the king and the queen. Now I even understand the queen's mother Jacquetta dying of heartbreak at the loss of the man she married for love. I learn that to love a man whose interests are mine, whose passion is given freely and openly to me, and whose battle-hardened young lithe body lies beside me every night as his only joy, is to utterly chan..
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counsels. "And never tell anyone that you spoke to me. And be sure that I will never confess it." "Dear"
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D'you think I can't write this and get someone-a drunk married to a fool -to swear to it? Do you think I can't sey up as historian? As storyteller? D'you think I can't write a history which years from now everyone will believe as the truth? I am the king. Who shall write the record of my reign if not me? 'You can say anything you like' I say levelly. 'Of course you can. You're King of England. But it doesn't make it true.
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There will be a child, but no child. There will be a king but no king. There will be a virgin queen all-forgotten. There will be a queen but no virgin. ["And Lord Robert Dudley?" he whispered.] "He will have the making of a prince who will change the history of the world," I whispered in reply. And he will die, beloved by a queen, safe in his bed."
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Twelfth night, of all the nights of the year, is one where shapes shift and identities flicker.
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All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided."
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all that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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She doesn't realize yet though men go to war it is the women who suffer--perhaps more than anyone.
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She tried to live like an ordinary woman; but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways; but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.
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For a moment our eyes meet, but we exchange nothing except a grim determination to get this parting over, to get this exile underway, to keep this precious boy safe. I suppose that Jasper is the only man that I have loved, perhaps he is the only man that I will ever love. But there has never been time for words of love between us, we have spent most of our time saying goodbye.
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There is nothing but the gleam of mysterious light--not dawn and yet not starlight--where the unlit earth meets the night-black sky, and the only sound is the haunting call of the owls.
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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 not their tempo nor their vision, and they cannot tolerate any other.
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This is a woman who has not been tamed to be as others want; she has not been cut down to fit her circumstances.
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These were simple people: when someone told them that they had nothing to fear they knew that they were in trouble.
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We would never meet. I would never have to see them. They were a life I had left behind. I could cut myself in two and say: "That was the old life, the old life with her; it is gone now, all gone."
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She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum. Do you understand?
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I assure him swiftly. 'There is
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Ne postoji nista sto covek moze uciniti nego da podnosi. Mozete besneti ili mozete plakati, ali na kraju cete nauciti kako to podnosti.
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A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at the same time, know that they are utterly hopelessly different.
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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," I repeated. "If he married me he would find me always cold. If he did not, he could waste his life in loving me and I would never return it."
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your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.
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