The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now.
Philippa GregoryDinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.
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The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now
Philippa GregoryRichard 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.
Philippa GregoryI stop still with the shock and fell my head swim. Richard takes my hand. We stand for a moment, handclasped as if we are clinging to each other in this new and terrifying world. We don't notice the passing servants, or the courtiers hurrying by. 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.
Philippa GregoryShe's a Boleyn and a Howard,"I said frankly."Underneath the great name, we 're all bitches on heat.
Philippa GregoryHe will never understand what happened that day between a young man and a young woman. There was a magic: and the name of it was love.
Philippa GregoryTags: love
Look, you can't fight everyone... You have to choose where you belong and rest there.
Philippa GregoryWe stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men.
Philippa GregoryTags: fear education history religion oppression women-s-rights witchhunt
I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.
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