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

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
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Kenya's capital
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Draw
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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
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There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.
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Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
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He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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