Philippa Gregory citations

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“It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.”

“The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.”

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

“Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.”

“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.”

“Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.”

“Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.”

“We're going' Anne said firmly.
So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'
Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.”

“En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.”

“Some women attract desire. Others do not.”

“When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.”

“When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.”

“All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.”

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.”

“If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.”

“Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.”