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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Men
Attract
Trick
Tricks
Anyone
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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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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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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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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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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 would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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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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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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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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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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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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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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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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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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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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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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