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| 08c3726 | We read in the paper about a fifty-five-year-old woman-you read right, that's fifty five- who had quadruplets! Since the pregnancy was in vitro, it was clearly on purpose. I've got to tell you, we were all pretty happy that we hadn't done this and also none of us had ever considered it. Nor had we considered pulling out all our teeth with pliers or slamming our fingers in the car door repeatedly just to see what it feels like. | humerous-quotes in-vitro sweet-potato-queens | Jill Conner Browne | |
| be0630b | Reasonableness is the byproduct of a scientific mind. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 011dd12 | It is important to eat Oreos the right way. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| c3add86 | Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| ae818fa | That which is priceless has no cost. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 8099eb5 | The key to hell picks all locks | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 64a9faf | To cure epilepsy, doctors concocted recipes of dried human heart or made a potion of wine, lily, lavender, and an entire adult brain, which weighed about three pounds. Human fat was used to treat consumption, rheumatism, and gout. Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man--a strangely unpalatable image to ponder. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 2339707 | Maimonides likewise recommended immediate vomiting after consuming suspect food and praised rooster dung as one of the most effective means to bring this about. "It is said that excrements of roosters have a specific property to eliminate every poison by vomiting," he proclaimed." | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 8cae043 | Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man--a strangely unpalatable image to ponder. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 61a8098 | A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 653fe7b | In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320" | Eleanor Herman | ||
| acb0964 | Divine grace, Caravaggio shows us, is not reserved for the rich and powerful, but falls equally on the poor and humble. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 5e78132 | Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. (Rudolph was the founder of the Hapsburg family). | Ancestors | ||
| 4c0a414 | The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no. | opening-lines | Colson Whitehead | |
| 742e944 | Even if the adults were free of the shackles that had held them fast, bondage had stolen too much time. Only the children could take full advantage of their dreaming. If white men let them. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 4032497 | What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. | Ancestors | ||
| 53dfda5 | It's not his friendship I miss,' Elizabeth said bluntly. 'It's him. The very person of him. His presence. I want his shadow on my wall, I want the smell of him. I can't eat without him, I can't do the business of the realm. I can't read a book without wanting his opinion, I can't hear a tune without wanting to sing it to him. | henry-viii queen-elizabeth queen-elizabeth-i robert-dudley | Philippa Gregory | |
| e71d2bf | We wind our way past Tower Hill and the scaffold that stands there, where my father ended his life, and I bow my head to his memory, and remember his hopeless struggle against Queen Mary. I think how glad he would be to see one daughter, at least, riding from the Tower to freedom, her baby beside her and her noble husband and heir following behind. It's bitter for me to think of him, and the death that he brought on Jane, | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 86fcf52 | them generally | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 65fb6f5 | England. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 8b1338f | feel that deep joy of a writer seeing her work in print for the first time. The absorbing private work has become public, it has stepped out into the world. It will be judged and I am full of confidence that it is good work. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ab697ac | If my honour is a real thing then it can't depend on whether a man sees my face, or touches my hand, or kisses my lips. If I am an honourable woman then I am an honourable woman like a man is an honourable man - whatever I wear, however I appear. It is about my respect for myself - not how the world sees me, not what events happen. I know that I am an honourable woman, I don't stoop to sin, I don't embarrass myself, I don't do things that I.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| aa9b397 | supposed to live a | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 8c5d604 | I find I must prepare for my death. I don't fear it. Ever since I lost my son I have been weary to my soul, and I think, when it finally comes, it will be a lying down to sleep without fear of dreams, without fear of waking. I am ready to lie down to sleep. I am tired. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 82ae565 | I believe that a desire and a prayer and a spell are all the same thing," I say. "When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. 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.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d293754 | He did not care, he was besotted with his pregnant queen, he dropped like a boy to kneel beside her, to put his hands on her great round belly and look up into her face. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 4dc0cd3 | Her great bed had been moved in, and the walls hung with thick tapestries to exclude any noise or sunshine or fresh air. They had put rushes down on the floor with rosemary for scent, and lavender for relief. They had moved all the other furniture out of the room except for one chair and table for the midwife. Anne was expected to stay in bed for one whole month. They had lit a fire although it was midsummer and the room was stifling. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 93cc0df | time of waiting, | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 975229b | 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. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2f0e0cf | HarperCollins | Philippa Gregory | ||
| c58ed10 | You've got ice between your legs, Meridon. All you ever want there is a horse. | horses meridon philippa-gregory sexuality wideacre | Philippa Gregory | |
| 2ee0a1d | He knew then, as she knew always, that it does not matter if a wife is half fish, if a husband is all mortal. If there is love enough, then nothing--not nature, not even death itself--can come between two who love each other. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 00e6682 | was in correspondence with their religious | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 708dcf4 | bowl, | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 4b647aa | riding | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a5a6b9c | eager | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 9874025 | who could deny the Pope when he held the keys of heaven in his hand? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d187298 | She never showed Henry the strain she suffered. She remained for him the fascinating woman she had always been. She would show him her temper if he crossed her, quick enough. But she never showed him her fear. She never showed her fear to anyone but to George and me. Henry had her sweetness and her charm and her flirtatiousness. Even eight months with child Anne could flick her eyes sideways in a way which would make a man catch his breath... | Philippa Gregory | ||
| e407c03 | I have loved you for years," she cried after him. "I gave my womanhood to you. Tell me, in what way have I offended you? What have I ever done which was displeasing?" -- | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ee2b06e | I tried! God knows, Henry! I tried! I bore you a son, that he did not live was no fault of mine. God wanted our little prince in heaven; that was no fault of mine." The" | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f7ced0b | It 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. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 77fae91 | terrible roar, | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 65f26fd | What will happen when I am old and I can dance no more? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f7388f3 | I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy experience. I had never lain with a man whose touch I adored without any need to hide my adoration, or exaggerate it, or adjust it at all. I simply loved him as if he were my one and only lover, and he loved me too with the same simplicity of appetite and desire which made me wonder what I thought I had been doing all those years when I had been d.. | Philippa Gregory |