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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?

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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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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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
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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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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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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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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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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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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 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 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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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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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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The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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