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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
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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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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 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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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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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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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.
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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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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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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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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
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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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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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