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.
Philippa GregoryMots clés women history feminism oppression
They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.
Philippa GregoryMots clés war
As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet.
Honesty matters so much less.
To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
Philippa GregoryThe law is what powerful men say it shall be.
Philippa GregoryJane would be the next queen and her children, when she had them, would be the next princes or princesses. Or she might wait, as the other queens had waited, every month, desperate to know that she had conceived, knowing each month that it did not happen that Henry's love wore a little thinner, that his patience grew a little shorter. Or Anne's curse of death in childbed, and death to her son, might come true. I did not envy Jane Seymour. I had seen two queens married to King Henry and neither of them had much joy of it.
Philippa GregoryMots clés henry-viii boleyn
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
Philippa GregoryI felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my betrothed. he desired me. I desired him. All I had to do was tell him the truth.
Philippa GregoryMots clés desire
lechery?" he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid.
"Oh aye, most vile," I said cheerfully, and jumped into the boat.
Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.
Philippa GregoryMots clés banned-books forbidden-knowledge
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