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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
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Anyone
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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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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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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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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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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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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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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 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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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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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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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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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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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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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
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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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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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