“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
“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 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
“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
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — 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
“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
“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
“When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.” — 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
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
“Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.” — 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
“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
