I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
Philippa GregoryFortune'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.
Philippa GregoryWhen a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
Philippa GregoryWe might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
Philippa GregoryFor he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.
Philippa Gregory