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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.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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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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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
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They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
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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 wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
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Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.
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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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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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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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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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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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