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9ce73c7
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This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.
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cousins-war
the-white-queen
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Philippa Gregory |
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ebba5c5
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Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we sh..
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Philippa Gregory |
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8d3b9e0
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I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
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Philippa Gregory |
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26f5ec1
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But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch." --
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life
love
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Philippa Gregory |
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9cfce7d
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I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him.
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love
edward-iii
reunion
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Philippa Gregory |
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5353c6c
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Luca saw her bloodstained hands as the clerk bound them with a rope, and Luca realized that she was a thing of horror, a beautiful thing of horror, the worst thing between heaven and hell: a fallen angel.
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Philippa Gregory |
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3456eed
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And I am much attached to my cock, brother. Make sure your sister can put another prince in the cradle, he says baldly. Save my balls for her, Anthony!
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Philippa Gregory |
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0c0c2c8
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Some of us are born to a solitary life.
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Philippa Gregory |
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bed56f1
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There are women that men marry and there are women that men don't," Anne pronouned. "And you are the sort of mistress a man doesn't bother to marry. Sons or no sons." "Yes," Mary said. "I expect your right. But there clearly is a third sort and that is the woman that men neither marry or take as their mistress. Woman that go home ...alone for Xmas. And thats seems to be you my dear sister. Good day."
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tudor
mary-boleyn
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Philippa Gregory |
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659f422
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Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
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war
men
history
women
religion
gender-roles
purpose
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Philippa Gregory |
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9ff2424
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Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe.
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Philippa Gregory |
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44eb0e8
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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?
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Philippa Gregory |
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7bdddc4
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I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.
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Philippa Gregory |
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51bb8d4
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You don't need to struggle, your baby is coming. Help him come to us, open your body and let him come into the world. You give birth, you don't force birth or besiege it. It's not a battle, it's an act of love. You give birth to your childd and you can do it gently.
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Philippa Gregory |
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6f74418
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Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
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life
margery-jourdemayne
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Philippa Gregory |
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b57b08e
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The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me.
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marriage
history
women
love
unimportant
objectification
personhood
objectification-of-women
importance
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Philippa Gregory |
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43e3151
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In truth, I did not have to wonder. She would be feeling that disturbing mixture of emotions that she always summoned from me: admiration and envy, pride and a furious rivalry, a longing to see a beloved sister succeed, and a passionate desire to see a rival fall.
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Philippa Gregory |
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aac092c
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And - I think you know, don't you? - that I love you, Anne.' I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father's when he sailed for England. 'You do? Truly?' 'I do.' He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. 'Will you marry me?' he whispers. 'Yes,' I s..
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marriage
love
match
richard-iii
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Philippa Gregory |
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fbe3bc4
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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.
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Philippa Gregory |
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d6fa395
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What a test of love it is, when the beloved is less than perfect.
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Philippa Gregory |
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2f49368
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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."
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Philippa Gregory |
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1e60041
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The two women look at each other and in both faces there is a glimpse of the girls that they were. A little smile warms Margaret's face and Jacquetta's eyes are filled with love. It is as if the years are no more than the mists of Barnet or the snows at Towton: they are gone, it is hard to believe they were ever there. Margaret puts out her hand, not to touch her friend but to make a gesture, a secret shared gesture, and, as we watch, Jacqu..
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Philippa Gregory |
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3e109b8
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Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' "Yes i do." she says uncertainly."
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sarcasm-humor
ignorance
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Philippa Gregory |
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0f80023
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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."
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the-lady-of-the-rivers
the-cousins-war
royalty
queen
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Philippa Gregory |
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492f12b
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We are both people of faith," he said quietly. "Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor in others, nor in themselves. The people who should face our crusade should be those who bring cruelty into the world for no reason but their own power. There is enough sin and wickedness to fight, without taking up arms against people who believe in a forgiving God and who try to lead a good life."
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Philippa Gregory |
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bab811b
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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 forward or running away, like then--you must always run away.But don't run too fast. Remember he has to catch you.
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Philippa Gregory |
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55aed85
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We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up.
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Philippa Gregory |
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0d596ee
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Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense.
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history
women
oppression
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Philippa Gregory |
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3fd4a69
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Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or I am nobody's. I will have no half-measures with you.
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Philippa Gregory |
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ba46573
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I have to say that 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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Philippa Gregory |
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38b0f24
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Do you not think that God will protect us?" "No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious."
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Philippa Gregory |
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a0b3ec8
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She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.
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Philippa Gregory |
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0c43eaa
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I can't sleep," he says so quietly that only I can hear. "I can't sleep. I can't sleep. I can't sleep." "Nor I." "You neither?" "No." "Truly?" "Yes." He sighs a deep sigh, as if he is relieved. "Is this love then?" "I suppose so." "I can't eat." "No." "I can't think of anything but you. I can't go on another moment like this; I can't ride out into battle like this. I am as foolish as a boy. I am mad for you, like a boy. I cannot be without ..
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the-white-queen
white-queen
the-cousins-war
philippa-gregory
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Philippa Gregory |
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0745f13
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He may make me feel like a fool, and like a woman who can do nothing, but what I can do I will. In my jewellery box is a dark locket of black tarnished silver and inside it locked in the darkness, I have his name: Richard Neville and that of George, Duke of Clarence, written in my blood on a piece of paper from the corner of my father's last letter. These are my enemies, I have cursed them. I will see them dead at my feet.
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Philippa Gregory |
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de1d093
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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.
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seasickness
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Philippa Gregory |
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667d486
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I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old enough to face death in the confinement room and be told that my own mother--my own mother--has commanded them to save the child and not me! I think I am a woman now. I have a babe in arms, and I have been married and widowed and now bethrothed again. I am like a draper's parcel to be sent about like cloth and cut to the pattern t..
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Philippa Gregory |
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b6b80ce
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Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not."
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the-red-queen
the-cousins-war
hopeless
king
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Philippa Gregory |
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48449ae
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My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.
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Philippa Gregory |
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7f8eeb7
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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.
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Philippa Gregory |
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a2316a6
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How?" I murmur. It feels as if I am talking in my sleep, floating down a stream of sleep. "How can I conquer the worst fear?" "You just decide," she says simply. "Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and walk slowly and steadily towards it. And smile."
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Philippa Gregory |
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a2ce3f2
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He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass.
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royalty
fragility
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Philippa Gregory |
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a8f74de
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I cannot know what the future will bring us," he says in a rapid undertone. "I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling you--without telling you at least once--that I love you." I snatch a breath at the words. "Woodville--" "I can offer you nothing; I am next to nothing, and you are the greatest lady in France. But I wanted you to know, I love you and I want..
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love
richard-woodville
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Philippa Gregory |
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fc6dde9
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She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel's smile.
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Philippa Gregory |
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e4d7c16
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I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.
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Philippa Gregory |