Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl (2001)

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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

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I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

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Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

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Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

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She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

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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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Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

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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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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

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But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

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I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

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Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

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