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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Breaking
Smile
Woman
Heart

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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
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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.
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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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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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I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future I am going to make it happen.
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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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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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