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

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
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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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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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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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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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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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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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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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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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One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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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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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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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.
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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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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