Poor little girl. Poor little girl,” Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me,...

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him,...

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,… a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. …little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech,...

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned…

This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a...

If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do...

She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel’s smile.

The world hasn’t changed that much; men still rule.

If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon...

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool,...

~My father says there are more than twenty thousand turned out for the king. It seems that most men think that we will win, that York will be captured and killed, though the king in...

Stars in the night,’ he said. ‘Something something something something, some delight

I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,”- Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville –

The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they...

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the...

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days...

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise…guided by your own virtue and highest ambition