“Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“But the misogynistic view of history explains women’s motives as neurotic, even psychotic. It is the get-out clause for lazy historians who… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Margaret...you must know that you could never change your own life. You are a girl: girls have no choice. You could never… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I do not grieve for him as a wife, as Anne Devereux has grieved for her husband William Herbert. She promised him… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Because I write women’s history I rarely have the luxury of a full and fair biography to study. Until about 1960 there… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that.… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“But I warn you that a woman who seeks great power and wealth has to pay a great price, Perhaps you will be a… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I raised my hand to wave in case he looked back; but he did not. He rode straight backed, looking forward. He rode like… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“One little boy, and he a bastard,' Anne said thoughtfully. 'One little girl of six, one elderly Queen and a King in the prime… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“We have been married little more than a year and already there is a terrible silence around some subjects. We never speak of the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn’t matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
